Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has said that the new government is its traditional enemy America will try to ‘stress-manage’ with it to ease pressure and help lift stricter restrictions.
According to the French news agency (AFP), he said in an interview on state television on Friday night, “We Tehran and managing tensions and antagonisms between Washington.’
Iran and the United States have not had diplomatic relations since 1980, the year the Islamic Revolution overthrew King Mohammad Reza.
Under the landmark 2015 accord between Tehran and world powers, sanctions were eased in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear program.
But after the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018, the deal fell apart and tensions rose.
“In foreign policy, we have a responsibility to reduce the cost of this hostility as much as possible and reduce its pressure on the nation,” said Araqchi, one of the main negotiators of the 2015 accord.
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He added that in Iran’s foreign policy, priority will be given to ‘neighboring countries’ as well as other countries including African countries, China and Russia.
Araqchi criticized European countries for adopting “aggressive policies” against Iran in recent years.
He said they would only ‘become preferred’ when they ‘relinquished their wrong and hostile policies.’
During the interview, the foreign minister expressed that Tehran unwaveringly supports the resistance forces’ axis ‘in any case’.
Araqchi became Iran’s new foreign minister after Iran’s parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a new cabinet proposed by President Masoud Pazshikian.
Some in Iran’s reformist camp have criticized the insufficient number of women in the president’s new cabinet.
On Tuesday, he named Sheena Ansari as his vice president for the environment, the third woman to hold the post since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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2024-08-24 19:18:09
