TEHRAN/WASHINGTON - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ruled out the possibility of any negotiation over a new nuclear deal, Tehran Times daily reported Saturday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said this on a visit to India as the US sanctioned brigadier general of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps

"We will never negotiate a new deal," Zarif said on Friday during his visit to India's Mumbai to attend a meeting organized by All India Association of Industries.

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Under the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran agreed to restrict its nuclear activities in exchange for the termination of Western and UN sanctions.

However, US President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the deal in May 2018 and slapped full sanctions against Iran.

Trump has been urging a new deal with the aim of more limits on Iran's nuclear program.

On Friday, Zarif called on the Indian government to persuade the US government to return to the deal. 

US slaps sanctions on Iran general

The US State Department said Saturday that it had imposed sanctions on a brigadier general of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

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The department said in a statement that it had blacklisted Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour, a commander in Khuzestan province, accusing him of commanding units blamed for killing protestors in Iran in Nov 2019.

As such, the blacklisted individual, as well as his immediate family members, are ineligible to enter into the United States.

The latest move by the US State Department came amid high tensions between Washington and Tehran following the US killing of a top Iranian military commander and Iran's missiles attack on US military bases in Iraq.