Rohani said: “Our people have been facing economic terrorism for three years”.
Tehran:
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday he hoped the next US administration learned that sanctions could not bend Tehran to US policy.
US President Donald Trump, who appears to be on the verge of losing Tuesday’s election to challenger Joe Biden, has applied a “maximum pressure” policy and has punished sanctions against Iran since his withdrawal in 2018 d ‘a historic 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 been facing economic terrorism for three years”.
Rouhani said Iran “will continue its resistance and patience until the other side bowed to the laws and regulations.”
The Islamic Republic hopes that “those who impose sanctions realize that their path was wrong and that they will not achieve their goals 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 also stressed that an eventual 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 happen again.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the US elections would have “no effect” on Tehran’s policy toward Washington.
Biden said he plans to embark on a “credible path of returning to diplomacy” with Iran if it wins the presidency and raised the possibility of reverting to the 2015 nuclear deal, negotiated as 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 daily Iran on Saturday.
“Whatever administration comes to power … (it) has no more (more) sanctions to impose,” he said.
Rabiei called on the next US president to “attempt to dismantle the structure created by Trump” and return to “reasonable policy”.
Most Iranian dailies covered Saturday’s US presidential election.
“Spectacular America!” mocked the ultraconservative 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 surprises in foreign policy 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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