IRAN SAYS TRUMP VICTORY IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO REVIEW PREVIOUS WRONG POLICIES
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The US presidential election triumph of Donald Trump was hailed by Iran on Thursday as a chance for the US to reconsider its previous “wrong policies.”
In his first term, Trump had pushed for “maximum pressure” on Iran. He is scheduled to return to the White House in January after defeating US Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election.
“We have very bitter experiences with the policies and approaches of different US governments in the past,” foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.
Trump’s win, he added, was a chance “to review previous wrong policies”.
Iran and the United States have been adversaries since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the Western-backed shah, but tensions peaked during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021.
Before Trump was declared the winner on Wednesday, Iran had dismissed the US election as irrelevant.
“The general policies of the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran are fixed,” said government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani
“It doesn’t matter who becomes president. Plans have already been set so that there is no change in people’s livelihood,” she added.
Trump placed severe penalties on the Islamic republic and unilaterally pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal during his first term in office.
During the Trump administration, the United States murdered Qasem Soleimani, a general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in an airstrike on the Baghdad airport in 2020.
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