TEHRAN, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Iranian government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi said the recent increase in Iran's oil exports is a sign of the failure of the U.S. sanction pressures, semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Sunday.
"Western media acknowledgment of Iran's record-breaking oil exports (for the first time) over the past three years is another sign of the failure of maximum pressure against the Iranian people," Bahadori Jahromi was quoted as saying.
On Saturday, western media released data about the recent rise of Iran's oil exports to over one million barrels per day (bpd) for the first time in nearly three years.
Iran's crude exports were over 2 million bpd before former U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sanctions against Tehran in 2018, after which the country's exports dropped sharply.
Iranian officials defied Trump's administrations' "maximum pressure campaign" against the country and vowed to find ways to maintain the exports.
Iran and world powers, with the U.S. indirectly involved, are in negotiations in the Austrian capital of Vienna to settle disputes between Tehran and Washington, which could result in the removal of anti-Iran sanctions and restoration of the 2015 nuclear deal.
