Iran expresses indifference toward outcome of US election

Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, has stated that Iran is neither scared of a second term of the Trump administration nor is it excited about a Biden administration.
“We decide and act based on our interests,” he said.
He referred to the claims of voter fraud in the U.S.
presidential election, describing the November 3 poll as a “spectacle” through
which the fake grandeur of the United States’ democracy was revealed to the
world.
In similar comments last week, the Leader of the Islamic
Revolution Imam Khamenei slammed the U.S. election as a “spectacle” where the
incumbent president has said the poll was the most fraudulent election in the
history of the US.
“What a spectacle!” Ayatollah Khamenei’s office said in a
tweet last week. “One says this is the most fraudulent election in US history.
Who says that? The president who is currently in office.”
“His rival says Trump intends to rig the election! This is
how #USElections & US democracy are,” it further said.
On Biden’s possible policy regarding the United States’
return to historic the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly
known as the Iran nuclear deal, Araghchi said in spite of the difficult path ahead
“the way to return to the JCPOA is not closed.”
“Iran did not leave the negotiating table … It was the U.S.
which unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA.”
The JCPOA was reached in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between the
Islamic Republic of Iran and six world powers, including the U.S., Russia,
China, France, Britain and Germany, as well as the European Union.
Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA was denounced by all other
parties to the deal. He then imposed extremely harsh economic sanctions on
Tehran which he called the “maximum pressure” policy.
Referring to the maximum pressure campaign, Araghchi commented
that the whole world has accepted that the policy has failed and has not
achieved any of its goals.
Thus far, the Iranian people have resisted these pressures
well and they will continue to do so in the future, noted Araghchi who was a
lead nuclear negotiator.
Araqchi leads the Iranian team in the Joint Commission of
the JCPOA, which holds meetings on a regular basis.
In rather similar comments on Monday, Vice President Es’hagh
Jahangiri said the era of Trump’s maximum pressure policy has come to an end
with Iran’s resistance.
Jahangiri said in spite of the maximum pressure policy
exerted by the Trump administration, the Iranian people and government are
still very proud.
He also stated that the changing of the US president does
not mean a significant change in the policies of that country toward the people
of Iran.
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