The United States has some 2,500 troops in Iraq to help advise and assist local troops in combating ISIS.
"This submarine was doing its best, using all its capacities, to pass in total silence and without being detected," Irani said.
The proposed agreement would reportedly see some sanctions being eased in exchange for a partial freezing of the Iranian nuclear program.
The US strikes were a response to a drone attack earlier on Thursday on a base near Hasakah in northeast Syria operated by a US-led coalition battling the remnants of Islamic State.
The defendants, all fugitives at large, used their companies the Iran-based Aran Modern Devices Kish Company, and UAE-based Modern Technologies for the conspiracy.
For many years, Tehran has sought the release of more than a dozen Iranians in the United States, including four Iranians with no legal status in the US.
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated eight senior executives of Paravar Pars, the department said in a statement.
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told Blinken when the two met that he planned to visit Kyiv in the near future.
News revealed in former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo's new book. Israeli intelligence sources deny operation was Iran nuclear archive heist.
The targeted Qods Aviation Industries, which itself has been under US sanctions since 2013, has been a key Iranian defense manufacturer responsible for the design and production of drones.
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