Iran says Trump’s victory gives US an ‘opportunity’ to ‘review its wrong policies’

MADRID 7 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Government of Iran has affirmed this Thursday that Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections in the United States represents an “opportunity” to “review the wrong policies” previously adopted by the North American country.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baqaei, stated that “each new election provides opportunities to revisit and review wrong and unfair positions.” “What matters to us are the actions of the United States,” he maintained.

“Our people have very bitter experiences derived from the last American administrations,” he said, before delving into the fact that “it is up to the American people to choose their president and they have already made this decision,” as reported by the Iranian news agency IRNA.

Baqaei’s words come a day after the spokesperson for the Iranian Executive, Fatemé Mohajerani, relativized the relevance of Trump’s victory and said that Tehran “is not worried” about the situation in the near future because it “does not see differences “between the tycoon and the current president of the United States, Joe Biden

“It doesn’t matter who becomes president in the United States, since our plans have already been adopted,” he said. “Taking into account the history of sanctions over the last four decades, Iran has stood up to them and is not worried about a Trump re-election, since it does not make a difference with the other person (Biden),” he concluded.

During his first term, between 2016 and 2020, Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the historic nuclear agreement signed with Iran in 2015 and imposed a battery of sanctions against Tehran that led the country to reduce its commitments to the pact until the return of Washington to comply with its clauses.

Likewise, in January 2020, the United States carried out a bombing against the airport of the capital of Iraq, Baghdad, in which it killed the then head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qasem Soleimani, and the ‘number two’ of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) — a coalition of Iraqi pro-government militias supported by Iran –, Abu Mahdi al Muhandis.

Following this, the Iranian authorities requested Interpol to arrest Trump and 48 other people for their role in the attack, while a Tehran court sentenced the United States Government and other institutions and individuals in the North American country in December 2023 to pay nearly 50 billion dollars (more than 46 billion euros) for the death of Soleimani.