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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech during the inaugural session of the new parliament after the February elections, in Tehran on May 27, 2020. – The eleventh term since the 1979 Islamic revolution opened as the country’s economy , which has been hit hard by new coronavirus, gradually returns to normal. Rouhani, who is in the last year of his second and final term, asked deputies, collectively and individually, to place the “national interest above special interests”, “party interests” or “interests of the voters ”. (Photo by – / AFP)
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that he hoped the next US administration would learn that sanctions cannot cause Tehran to bow to US policy.
US President Donald Trump, who appears poised to lose Tuesday’s election to challenger Joe Biden, has pursued a policy of “maximum pressure” and sanctions against Iran since he withdrew in 2018 from a landmark nuclear deal. with Iran.
“We hope that the three-year experience will be a lesson for the next US administration to comply with laws and regulations and return to its commitments,” Rouhani said in a televised speech.
“Our people have faced economic terrorism for the past three years.”
Rouhani said Iran “will continue its resistance and patience until the other side bows to the laws and regulations.”
The Islamic republic hopes that “those who impose sanctions will realize that their path was wrong and that they will not achieve their objectives in any way.”
Iranian officials have said they will focus on the policies of the next US administration rather than who will become president.
Tehran has also stressed that a possible US return to the nuclear deal should be accompanied by compensation for the damage caused by the withdrawal and a “guarantee” that it will not be repeated.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the US elections “will have no effect” on Tehran’s policies toward Washington.
Biden has said he plans to embark on a “credible path to return to diplomacy” with Iran if he wins the presidency and raised the possibility of returning to the 2015 nuclear deal, negotiated when he was vice president under Barack Obama.
The policy of “maximum pressure has come to an end, and contrary to Trump’s expectations, Iran has not collapsed,” government spokesman Ali Rabiei wrote in the state-run Iran daily on Saturday.
“Whichever administration comes to power … (does) have (more) penalties to impose,” he said.
Rabiei asked the next president of the United States to “try to dismantle the structure that Trump created” and return to a “reasonable policy.”
Most of Iran’s newspapers covered the US presidential election on their front pages on Saturday.
“Spectacular America!” he mocked the ultra-conservative Kayhan, saying that “the country that calls itself the global model of democracy has entered a period of political, security and social instability.”
Aftab-e Yazd, a reformist newspaper, however, predicted “fewer foreign policy surprises and things will be more predictable” without Trump.
“Of course, being predictable is not the same as being positive,” he added.
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