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TEHRAN – On Wednesday night, the Iranian Foreign Ministry released a fact sheet featuring the United States long list of historically hostile actions towards the Islamic Republic and denounced Washington\u2019s hypocritical approach towards the country, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n
The ministry released the fact sheet, which included a whole host of US violations concerning Iran, such as reinstatement of its so-called \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d policy towards the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n
The US initiated the policy under Donald Trump\u2019s former tenure as president and relaunched it under his current presidency, with the American chief executive signing a new \u201cPresidential National Security Memorandum\u201d on February 3, through which he ordered intensification of economic and political pressure against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n
The ministry described the policy as an extension of Washington\u2019s long-standing adversarial attitude\u00a0towards Tehran.<\/p>\n
It, meanwhile, asserted that \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d was never truly halted after Trump\u2019s former term ended, as the previous U.S. administration of Joe Biden not only retained the country\u2019s sanctions against Iran, but also imposed hundreds more.<\/p>\n
The ministry reiterated the Islamic Republic\u2019s commitment to resisting such coercive measures, emphasizing that no nation should be subjected to illegal and unjust economic pressure.<\/p>\n
\u2018Dual approach exposes U.S. hypocrisy\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n The U.S. was deploying the policy, while simultaneously calling for negotiations with Iran on the nuclear issue, the ministry said, noting that such attitude contradicted Washington\u2019s rhetoric.<\/p>\n Iran underlines that it has always supported diplomacy and engaged in negotiations in good faith. However, it reminds at the same time that pressure and intimidation tactics have never yielded results as far as dealing with the Islamic Republic is concerned.<\/p>\n Iranian authorities, meanwhile, warn that such contradictory approach only deepens distrust and undermines any possibility of meaningful diplomatic engagement.<\/p>\n U.S. breach of nuclear deal<\/strong><\/p>\n The fact sheet further highlighted the United States track record regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement backed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which was signed between Iran and world countries, including the U.S., in 2015.<\/p>\n The former Trump administration withdrew from the deal in 2018 in a unilateral and illegal move, despite its endorsement by the UNSC. It then returned the sanctions that the accord had lifted, and ramped up even more economic pressure on the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n Washington’s departure came despite Iran\u2019s full compliance with the agreement as confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the document highlighted.<\/p>\n \u201cOver the past four years, despite intensive negotiations to revive the JCPOA, Washington, while expressing a desire to return to the agreement, has never been willing to fulfill its JCPOA commitments or lift sanctions against the Iranian nation, and under various pretexts, it prevented, on different occasions, the negotiations from reaching a final conclusion,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n Historical U.S. hostility towards Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n The document also recalled the long history of other aggressive American actions against Iran, dating back to the CIA-orchestrated 1953 coup.<\/p>\n It listed numerous examples, including Washington\u2019s military support and other instances of backing for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during his 1980-88 imposed war on Iran, freezing of Iranian assets, and military provocations.<\/p>\n It also reminded the US\u2019s ordering the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, Iran\u2019s former top anti-terror commander and a strongly revered national and regional personality, in early 2020, and its facilitating the targeting of Iranian nuclear scientists by the Israeli regime — which has so far assassinated at least seven of the scientists.<\/p>\n Washington\u2019s role in regional instability<\/strong><\/p>\n Additionally, the fact sheet challenged US allegations that Iran supported \u201cterrorism,\u201d asserting that the Islamic Republic was, in fact, the primary victim of terrorism in the region.<\/p>\n It pointed to the sacrifices that had been made by Iranian servicemen in the fight against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the region and other similar outfits.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the ministry reiterated Iran\u2019s condemnation of the US\u2019s fueling regional instability by backing groups like Daesh, al-Qaeda, and al-Nusra Front, currently Hay\u2019at Tahrir al-Sham, to serve its geopolitical interests.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the statement argued that Washington would try to brand Iran\u2019s continued support for regional resistance movements, which fight against deadly Israeli occupation and aggression, as fostering \u201cterrorism\u201d as a pretext to shield the Israeli regime from accountability for its atrocities against the regional peoples, including members of the resistance factions.<\/p>\n \u201cLabeling Iran’s support for resistance groups and Muslim nations in the region – who are fighting for the liberation of their land and human dignity against an occupying regime – as “support for terrorism” does not change the reality,\u201d it underlined.<\/p>\n \u201cBlaming the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a futile US attempt to protect the Zionist regime from accountability and to evade from US responsibility for full-fledged and absolute support for the crimes of this regime,\u201d it added, pointing to Washington\u2019s all-out political, military, and intelligence support for Tel Aviv\u2019s military aggression.<\/p>\n U.S. human rights violations, economic warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n The ministry also condemned Washington\u2019s claims of championing human rights, highlighting its full support for Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip and the devastation that had been caused by economic sanctions on the Iranian people.<\/p>\n It reminded that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the US even intensified its sanctions, worsening humanitarian conditions in Iran, and asserted that the American policies directly targeted the Iranian people, contradicting Washington\u2019s self-proclaimed concern for human rights.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s response: Diplomacy with strength, dignity<\/strong><\/p>\n Amid the American attitude, Iran\u2019s leadership, guided by the principles of \u201cdignity, wisdom, and expediency,\u201d would refuse to negotiate under pressure, the document underscored.<\/p>\n Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has reiterated that engaging in talks under coercion was irrational and would undermine Iran\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n Tehran, however, remains open to diplomacy that safeguards its national interests.<\/p>\n While committed to diplomatic solutions, Iran warns that any aggression against its national security would be met with a decisive response, the ministry stressed, pledging to continue pursuing the Islamic Republic\u2019s interests from a position of strength, and ensuring that the country\u2019s sovereignty and regional stability remained non-negotiable.<\/p>\n The ministry finally reaffirmed that Iran has never pursued acquiring nuclear weapons, citing a binding religious decree (fatwa) against such prospect that had been issued by the Leader.<\/p>\n It called on the US, the only country to have ever deployed nuclear weapons, to refrain from using the nuclear issue as an excuse for confrontation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n