Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif has urged US President Joe Biden to end his predecessor, Donald Trump’s fruitless pressure policy against Iran and begin the process of rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement by lifting all unilateral sanctions unconditionally, warning that the “window of opportunity will not be open” for the new White House team forever.
In an op-ed article published Friday by American magazine Foreign Affairs, Zarif said former US President Donald Trump failed to make Iran give in to his demands through his “maximum pressure” campaign that ensued Washington’s withdrawal in May 2018 from the nuclear accord.
The agreement was inked in 2015 between Tehran and six major world states — the US, France, Britain, Germany, China and Russia — and was later endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
Trump, Zarif wrote, “tried to torpedo a major multilateral diplomatic achievement and then initiated a campaign of blunt economic warfare targeting the Iranian people, in effect punishing Iran for its adherence to a UN-endorsed agreement.”
Zarif added that Trump’s pressure policy did create certain hardships for the Iranian nation, “but these hardships have not forced us to surrender, nor have they collapsed our economy or changed our strategic calculus.”
In fact, the hostile campaign has not only failed but has even produced “the exact opposite of its intended result” since it promoted the Islamic Republic to largely strengthen its capabilities in the nuclear industry.
Source: PRESS TV