US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power says the White House opposes news sanctions against Iran ahead of a possible nuclear agreement between Tehran and six world powers

US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power says the White House opposes news sanctions against Iran ahead of a possible nuclear agreement between Tehran and six world powers.

In response to the question of why the White House is against the tightening of the sanctions against Iran, Power noted that “we have to trust” Tehran, adding, “There is so much mistrust, of course, that we bring to these negotiations after generations of suspicion and that cuts both ways.”

The US diplomat said that a potential nuclear deal would entail a series of confidence-building measures by Iran in return for “temporary, modest, reversible, limited relief that we are promising.”

“To think that we could go from zero to sixty overnight and come to Congress with a comprehensive deal that any of us would trust, having not probed it in this way, I think is not realistic,” she pointed out.

On Thursday, US President Barack Obama urged Congress not to impose new sanctions against Iran and give time to diplomacy to help a deal with Iran over its nuclear energy program.