News - Middle East: Iran’s lead negotiator in the ongoing Vienna negotiations on the revival of the 2015 Iran deal says other countries targeted by sanctions are on the lookout for Iran’s “sanctions nullifying knowledge.”

Ali Bagheri Kani made the remarks during a visit to the 26th edition of the International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition  in Tehran on Sunday.

He said Iranian energy experts have turned the “art of circumventing sanctions” from their only tool against the “smart sanctions” of the George W. Bush-era, into a “technology” for countering Barack Obama’s “crippling sanctions,” and then into a “knowledge” for neutralizing Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign of sanctions.”

“Now, the other countries under sanctions are also seeking to obtain the sanctions neutralizing knowledge from Iran,” he added.

The United States, under former President Donald Trump, unilaterally left the Iran deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and launched a maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic, despite the latter’s full adherence to its commitments under the deal.

According to Bagheri Kani, the capability of Iranian craftsmen and scientists to nullify sanctions not only significantly reinforces Tehran’s diplomatic prowess to do away with sanctions, but also remarkably boosts the country’s deterrent power in the face of the brutal sanctions.

The strategic policy of nullifying sanctions, he continued, together with a clever initiative to remove the sanctions, have brought the enemy’s ploys aimed at hindering the country’s development to a failure.