Iran expects the next US government "
three important changes without which nothing will happen,
" said Monday the Islamic Republic, while recalling that it would judge the team of Joe Biden on his "
actions
".
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"
Change of thought and mentality on the part of American politicians, change of language and discourse [of the United States] towards the world and Iran, and [...] return to the good way in order to be forgiven for the past
”, enumerated the spokesman for Iranian Foreign Affairs, Saïd Khatibzadeh.
Enemies for more than 40 years, the Islamic Republic and the United States have found themselves on the brink of war twice since June 2019, amid tensions over the international Iran nuclear agreement concluded in Vienna in 2015.
Outgoing President Donald Trump denounced this pact in May 2018 and launched a campaign of "
maximum pressure
" against Tehran
with sanctions that plunged Iran into a violent recession.
In response, Tehran has since May 2019 freed itself from most of its key commitments made in Vienna, and the agreement is now only held by the will of the participating states - namely Germany, China, France, Britain, Russia and Iran - to keep him alive anyway.
During the campaign in the United States, President-elect Joe Biden said he wanted to change the course of his country's Iranian policy and offer "
Iran a credible path to return to diplomacy
" with a view to reintegrating states. -United to the Vienna agreement.
But Biden has yet to make clear precisely how he plans to go about it, and he has so far set conditions that are already unacceptable to Iran.
"
There is time,
" said Khatibzadeh, who was speaking at a press conference.
The United States "
can still get out of the wrong path on which it is on
," he added, while indicating that the Iranians would "
certainly be very attentive to the actions and words of the next American government
".
Khatibzadeh also said that the Iranian government and Biden transition team had had no contact and suggested that there was no reason they have, Iran acknowledged that "
the governments
”in place.
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