Iran, which has maintained tense relations with the United States for decades, said on Thursday it hoped that the election of Donald Trump to the White House would allow Washington to “revisit the erroneous approaches of the past”.
“We have very bitter experiences of the policies and approaches of the different American governments,” declared the spokesperson for Iranian diplomacy, Esmaïl Baghaï, quoted by the official Irna agency, calling on Washington to “review the erroneous approaches of the past” .
Iran and the United States, once close allies, have been at loggerheads since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which toppled the Washington-backed Pahlavi dynasty. The two countries broke off diplomatic relations in 1980, after the assault carried out a few months earlier against the United States embassy in Tehran, accused of being a “nest of spies”.
Donald Trump maintained very tense relations with Tehran during his first term. In May 2018, he unilaterally withdrew his country from the agreement on Iran’s nuclear program and reinstated heavy sanctions against Tehran, despite a pact concluded three years earlier with the great powers. Iran has since gradually freed itself from its commitments made under the nuclear agreement.
Donald Trump’s first term was also marked by his decision in January 2020 to have the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, architect of Iran’s regional influence strategy, killed in Iraq.
Washington and Tehran then appeared on the verge of direct military confrontation. The Iranian media are largely reporting on the results of the American presidential election on Thursday.
“The United States is the great Satan, whoever the president is,” writes the Kayhan newspaper. “American policy has not changed in the slightest during the four years” of the Biden administration, argues the ultraconservative daily.
The Iran newspaper, a government publication, emphasizes for its part that “the Iranian economy has been affected by the pressures.” “But the situation is now different and Trump will no longer be able to isolate Iran and harm its economy,” he says.
The reformist daily Ham Mihan, for its part, criticizes “diplomatic declarations” in Iran according to which Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in the White House “make no difference for us”. This position has been repeated over and over again in recent weeks by Iranian officials.
Iran, which has maintained tense relations with the United States for decades, said Thursday it hoped that the election of Donald Trump to the White House would allow Washington to “revisit the erroneous approaches of the past.”
“We have very bitter experiences of the policies and approaches of different American governments,” said…
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