OR Tehran call him today Donald Trumpwinner of the recent presidential election on USAto “change” the policy of “maximum pressure” he followed during his first term towards the Islamic Republic.

“Mr. Trump must show that he is not following the wrong policies of the past,” Iran’s vice president for strategic affairs,Iran’s vice president for strategic affairs, told reporters Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Zarif, a former foreign minister, was the architect on the Iranian side of the nuclear deal, struck in 2015 between Tehran and the international community, including the United States.

But the pact was torpedoed three years later when then-President Donald Trump pulled his country out of it and reimposed heavy sanctions as part of a “maximum pressure” policy against Iran.

“As a man of calculations, he will have to see what were the pros and cons of this policy and whether he wishes to continue or change this harmful policy,” Zarif said, referring to Trump’s career and given that the latter is a businessman .

Donald Trump’s first term was also marked by his decision in January 2020 to assassinate in Iraq the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, an architect of Iran’s strategic regional influence.

On Thursday, Tehran, through its diplomatic representative Ismail Bagai, he said he hoped that Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House would make it possible to “reexamine the wrong approaches of the past”.

However, he did not mention Trump’s name.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all strategic decisions, did not refer to the US presidential election in a speech on Thursday.

Trump assured on Tuesday that he does not seek to harm Iran, but instead wants the Iranians to have “a very prosperous country.”

Donald Trump’s presidential victory comes at a sensitive time for Iran, which is embroiled in the Gaza war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas and the spillover of the conflict into neighboring Lebanon against Hezbollah.

These two movements are supported financially and militarily by Tehran in their war against the state of Israel, which Iran does not recognize.

FBI: Iran Planned Assassination of Donald Trump – Revolutionary Guards Ordered Killing

On the US side, the Ministry of Justice accused Iran on Friday of plotting to assassinate the president-elect Donald Trumpin an indicative move of how the already tense relations between the two countries will be shaped and with the new US president.

“The charges announced today reveal Iran’s continued brazen efforts to target US citizens, including President-elect Donald Trump,” said its director. FBI Christopher Ray.

A few weeks ago, Trump’s campaign staff announced that they had been briefed by US intelligence about real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate the Republican tycoon.

At the same time, the US government filed charges against a 51-year-old Iranian man who prosecutors say was ordered by a Revolutionary Guards official last September to hatch a plan to spy on and kill Trump.

American justice brought charges against him Farhad Shakeri and two other men, who are also accused of plotting to kill an Iranian dissident.

Arrest warrants have been issued against them. The US government said that the Shakeri he has not been arrested and is believed to be in Iran.

“There are few actors in the world that represent as serious a threat to US national security as Iran,” the attorney general warned Merrick Garland. “We will not tolerate the Iranian regime’s efforts to endanger American citizens and US national security,” he added.