Iran’s president says Tehran has to deal with Washington

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran will not be able to ignore its arch-foe the United States and needs to “handle its enemies with forbearance”, state media reported on Tuesday, a week after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election.

“Whether we like it or not, we will have to deal with the U.S. in the regional and international arenas, so it is better to manage this relation ourselves,” Pezeshkian, who is viewed as relatively moderate, said.

“We have to treat our friends with generosity and handle our enemies with forbearance.”

In 2018, then-President Trump ditched Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and re-imposed harsh sanctions as part of his “maximum pressure” policy against Iran.

While there have been no reports that the Trump administration plans to hold talks with Tehran after it takes office in January, the President-elect said during his election campaign “I don’t want to do damage to Iran but they cannot have nuclear weapons.”

Indirect talks between Washington and Tehran to revive the nuclear deal were initiated under the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden, but failed. Iran is still formally part of the deal but has scaled back commitments to honour it due to U.S. sanctions re-imposed on the Islamic Republic.

Earlier on Tuesday, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said Iran will pursue whatever secures its interest, when asked if there could be direct talks with the Trump administration.

She cautioned that the final decision for talks rests with the top political figure Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Supreme National Security Council.

“The maximum pressure campaign of Trump has failed, even if people have been burdened by it. What is important will be actions and not words, but we recommend Trump to take into account the failure of his past policies,” Mohajerani added.

This post is originally published on INVESTING.

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