Iranian embassy staff lost their banking privileges in Moscow, The Moscow Times reported on March 4, 2012. According to its Reuters report, Russia supports sanctions against Iran but has not signed on to the multilateral regime of financial sanctions. In a blog post entitled VTB 24 Surrenders to the Mercy of the USA, Iran's ambassador Seyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi called the closing of accounts crude and unprofessional.