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The Iranian Foreign Ministry has said Tehran will judge the new U.S. government on the basis of its policies and approaches after Donald Trump won the presidential election. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeili Baghaei said Trump’s victory is an opportunity for the United States to reassess its “wrong policies” in the past. Trump who was president from 2017-2021, unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 nuclear deal in May 2018 and imposed draconian sanctions on the Islamic Republic. “We have very bitter experiences with the policies and approaches of different US governments in the past,” Baghaei was quoted as saying by IRNA news agency.

The results of the “elections are an opportunity to review and revise the wrong approaches of the past,” he suggested. Baghaei reiterated Iran’s earlier position that the results of the U.S. election are of no consequence to the Islamic Republic.  “The choice of the American president is the responsibility of the people of that country, and now the American people have made their choice,” he said. “What is important for Iran is the performance of the American government as the evaluation criterion,” he added.  In a stunning political comeback with unpredictable consequences for the world, Trump officially became the 47th US president on Wednesday after winning a clear majority of Electoral College votes. So far, Trump has won 295 electoral votes and Harris 226. He secured a second non-consecutive term nearly four years after he left the White House following a major defeat to his Democratic rival Joe Biden.