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Denouncing new U.S. sanctions against Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as “absolutely insulting,” a top Russian Foreign Ministry official said chances for a diplomatic resolution to tensions between Washington and Tehran are sharply reduced.

“There is a very narrow window left because this is an absolutely insulting step for intergovernmental relations. But hope dies last,” special envoy Zamir Kabulov told reporters on June 26 in Moscow.

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