Iran says Trump win a chance for US to reassess ‘wrong policies’
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Before Donald Trump was declared the winner on Nov 7, Iran had dismissed the US election as irrelevant.
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TEHRAN – Iran on Nov 7 called Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election an opportunity for the US to reassess past “wrong policies”.
Trump, who is set to return to the White House in January after defeating US Vice-President Kamala Harris in the Nov 5 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 said, was a chance “to review previous wrong policies”.
President Masoud Pezeshkian said later that Trump’s victory “makes no difference” to Iran which had “prioritised developing relations with Islamic and neighbouring countries”.
“We will not have a narrow or restricted view when developing our relations with other countries,” he said, quoted by Irna.
Iran and the US 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 Nov 7, 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 spokeswoman 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.
During his first term, Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal
In 2020, under Trump’s presidency, the US killed revered Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general Qasem Soleimani
