bury a herd of elephants in the room

He has also called for "constructive negotiations" with Western powers over a renewal of thefaltering 2015 nuclear deal [JCPOA] in which Iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme in return for an easing of Western sanctions.

That was Raisi's sisyphusian task beside orienting Iranians' "worldview" toward diplomatic and economic security across Asia. Seyed Mohammad Marandi—author and Piers Morgan nemesis—was heard to say last night that taking up the wheels of sanctions relief and trade imbalance, rather than "reforming" Iranian value system, is his greatest appeal to the voting public. Marandi also asserted that Raisi's popularity, absorbed by Pezeshkian, stimulated turnout from the sidelines of the first round. He did not discredit Pezeshkian's mandate as Iran Int'l and the like attempted to do.

16,384,403 + 13,538,179, or 48% of 61,452,321 eligible voters.

But Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected suggestions that the low turnout represents a rejection of his rule.

Today  the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei congratulated president-elect Pezeshkian and presumably his populist agenda. "For-Iran"

reiterated the guiding principle of the country's foreign policy as "Neither East nor West," outlining his government's commitment to advancing national interests in the foreign policy sphere.

Pezeshkian underscored the importance of prioritizing relationships with neighboring nations and expanding global connections to foster the country's growth while emphasizing the necessity of diversifying foreign policy options to enhance trade and engagement.

On many occasions, he reiterated his commitment to abiding by the Islamic Republic's legal framework and the policies defined by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

Pezeshkian is going to learn the hard way. NATO do not negotiate.

mehrnews | Iran, Russia partnership treaty to be signed ASAP, 9 July

Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday exchanged views on the promotion of bilateral relations. In a phone call, the two sides voiced their countries' readiness to sign a comprehensive cooperation agreement on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan in late October.

isna.ir | Pezeshkian to Sayyed Nasrallah: Support for Resistance is Iran's core policy

"I'm certain that the resistance movements in the region will not allow the Zionist entity to continue its provocative and criminal policies against the oppressed people of Palestine and other peoples of the region," the Iranian President-elect added.

presstv.ir | Iran leads joint statement to recognize Zionism as racism

Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Ali Bahraini read out the statement at the 56th Regular Session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday. Representing several Islamic and independent nations, the Iranian diplomat spoke at the session, where the UN special rapporteur on racism was present.

Pezeshkian, Assad confer on expansion of Iran-Syria ties

Vanessa Beeley interviews Seyed Mohammad Marandi, 10 July  

'Whatever Iran does it's "bad" according to Western media and regimes, 52 min. audio recording (EN)

President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, My message to the new world, 12 July

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The United States also needs to recognize the reality and understand, once and for all, that Iran does not—and will not—respond to pressure. We entered the JCPOA in 2015 in good faith and fully met our obligations. But the United States unlawfully withdrew from the agreement motivated by purely domestic quarrels and vengeance, inflicting hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to our economy, and causing untold suffering, death and destruction on the Iranian people—particularly during the Covid pandemic—through the imposition of extraterritorial unilateral sanctions. The U.S. deliberately chose to escalate hostilities by waging not only an economic war against Iran but also engaging in state terrorism by assassinating General Qassem Soleimani, a global anti-terrorism hero known for his success in saving the people of our region from the scourge of ISIS and other ferocious terrorist groups. Today, the world is witnessing the harmful consequences of that choice.

The U.S. and its Western allies, not only missed a historic opportunity to reduce and manage tensions in the region and the world, but also seriously undermined the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by showing that the costs of adhering to the tenets of the non-proliferation regime could outweigh the benefits it may offer. Indeed, the U.S. and its Western allies have abused the non-proliferation regime to fabricate a crisis regarding Iran's peaceful nuclear program—openly contradicting their own intelligence assessment—and use it to maintain sustained pressure on our people, while they have actively contributed to and continue to support the nuclear weapons of Israel, an apartheid regime, a compulsive aggressor and a non-NPT member and a known possessor of illegal nuclear arsenal.
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