Iran Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi insisted on Sunday that if the American Congress passes any new anti-Iran sanctions bills, it would undoubtedly bring the “Geneva negotiations and the implementation of its agreement to a halt.”

He pointed to a new bill drafted by Iranian lawmakers to raise the uranium enrichment level in Iran to 60 percent, saying, “This is an idea which has been brought up in Majlis and naturally, whatever Majlis passes and becomes law…will be binding for us. This is a decision for Majlis to make.”

On December 25, Iranian lawmakers drafted a bill that, if passed, would oblige the government to produce 60-percent enriched uranium in line with the requirements of the nation’s civilian nuclear program.

The draft bill comes as key members of the US Congress have recently introduced a bill which proposes boycotting Iranian oil exports within a year and blacklisting Iran's mining, engineering and construction industries.

Araqchi further stated that expert-level talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – Russia, China, France, Britain, and the US -- plus Germany would resume in Geneva on Monday and will only last for one day.

Iran and the six major world powers sealed an interim nuclear agreement in Geneva on November 24. Under the Geneva deal, the six world powers agreed to lift some of the existing sanctions against the Islamic Republic in exchange for Iran agreeing to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities during a six-month period.

It was also agreed that no more sanctions would be imposed on Iran within this timeframe.

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