Spokesman:

US’ Current Approach to Iran to Yield Nothing

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi described the current US administration as a radical regime, and reassured that this administration’s policies against Tehran would bear no fruit for Washington.

News ID: 442986

Date: 13 January 2019 - 11:02

RNA - Qassemi condemned the US Secretary State Mike Pompeo’s remarks against Iran by saying “the United States is suffering from chronic frustration and irritation.”

“The United States, and in particular its current radical regime, has taken a wrong path due to its long-standing hostility towards the Iranian nation and its undoing of all the policies that were done by the previous US government under the influence of notorious lobbying circles,” he said in a Friday statement in reaction to recent anti-Iran remarks by Mike Pompeo in the Egyptian capital of Cairo.

The diplomat further noted that the new path that the current US administration has taken "will not yield any results for the United States."

The spokesman also condemned the US illegal withdrawal from the ‘legal’ and ‘comprehensive’ nuclear deal with Iran, saying as this regime (Trump's administration) cannot find a substitute for it (the nuclear deal) “it is suffering from chronic frustration and irritation.”

He went on to condemn the US policy that in one hand increases hostility towards Iran to its highest level, while on the other hand, hypocritically indicates its willingness to negotiate with the Middle Eastern country, and talks of support for its people.

The spokesman further stressed that Mike Pompeo must know that Iran will defend its strategic and national interests with all might.

"Iran has consistently shown that it wants peaceful coexistence with its neighbors, but US behavior shows that it is seeking division and wants to create a new chaos in the region which requires vigilance on the part of all the nations in the region against the American officials’ trickery and divisive policies," Qassemi further noted.

In a related front, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a Twitter post on Thursday, asserted that Washington’s interventionist policies have always caused chaos, repression, and resentment in the world, quite contrary to claims made by Pompeo.

Zarif countered Pompeo's claims that "when America retreats, chaos often follows," saying actually the opposite is true.

“Whenever/wherever US interferes, chaos, repression, and resentment follow,” Zarif tweeted on Thursday in response to Pompeo's remarks in Egypt which raised eyebrows in the United States and abroad.

US Secretary of State Pompeo once again repeated unfounded and baseless accusations against Iran and said, “Preconditions that Washington have determined for continuation of talks with Tehran remain in place.”

Pompeo described the US as a “force for good” in the Middle East in a speech at the American University in Cairo, which contradicted President Donald Trump's announcement last month to pull troops out of the region.

In his Thursday tweet, Zarif said, “The day Iran mimics US clients & @SecPompeo’s ‘human rights models’ — be it the Shah or current butchers — to become a ‘normal’ country is the day hell freezes over. Best for the US to just get over loss of Iran.”

The Iranian top diplomat was referring to Iran’s former dictator Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who was the US’s staunch ally and his monarchy was toppled by the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

In a related front, earlier in mid-April 2018, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani blamed the US adventurism for the spread of terrorism in the region.

"We have witnessed terrorist clashes in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan in the past and one of its root causes is the US military aggression in the region," Larijani said in a meeting with President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan in Hanoi.

"Experience shows that anywhere the US has intervened militarily, the terrorist groups have initiated action there immediately after, and the Americans practically play a role in the creation and spread of terrorism," he added.

Larijani said that the recent US attacks on Syria disclosed that Washington is against the establishment of tranquility in the country, and added, "The westerners use the chaos in the region to sell their weapons but we are determined to make the regional conditions secure."

In relevant remarks in February, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani warned of the US dangerous policies against global peace, adding that Washington is resuscitating the terrorist groups in the Middle-East and North Africa.

"The US national security strategy and nuclear doctrine in the new era is a serious threat to global peace and violates the UN Charter, and all deterrent measures are required to prevent this madness," Shamkhani said at a meeting with Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Sigrid Kaag in Tehran.

He underlined that the ISIL terrorist group has been annihilated in West Asia through extensive cooperation and coordination between Iran, Syria, Iraq and Russia, and said, "Extensive evidence indicates the US relentless attempts to revive the armed terrorist groups in the region and North Africa which shows that the country doesn’t attach any importance to global security."

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