Iran urges new Trump administration to adopt ‘realistic approach’

The hope that the new American administration will adopt a “realistic approach” to Tehran, the representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry expressed today a few hours before the inauguration of Donald Trump. “We hope that the approaches and policies of the (future) US administration will be realistic and based on respecting the interests of … the states of the region, including the Iranian state,” Esbail Baghai said at the weekly press conference. This statement was made a few hours before Donald Trump returned to power in Washington, the architect of a “maximum pressure” policy exercise towards Iran during his first term (2017-2021). Under Donald Trump’s first presidency, the US withdrew in 2018 from the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, which was reached three years earlier and offered Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for curbing its nuclear ambitions. In retaliation for Washington’s withdrawal, which reimposed heavy sanctions, Tehran significantly increased stockpiles […]
Source: News Beast

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