2024-07-10 13:08:43
The White House said it does not expect any change in Iran’s behavior after the election of relatively moderate Masoud Pezeshkian as president.
White House Press Secretary John Kirby also said the United States is not ready to resume nuclear talks with Iran under the new president.
The State Department echoes this.
“We do not expect these elections to result in fundamental changes in Iran’s leadership or policies,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters.
Recall that Pezeshkian on Monday reiterated Iran’s anti-Israel stance, saying that resistance movements across the region will not allow Israel’s “criminal policies” toward the Palestinians to continue.
“The Islamic Republic has always supported the resistance of the peoples of the region against the illegitimate Zionist regime,” Pezeshkian said in a message to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
The comments do not signal any change in the regional policies of the new government led by the relatively moderate Pezeschkian, who defeated his tough rival in the second round of elections last week.
“I am confident that the resistance movements in the region will not allow this regime to continue its incitement and criminal policies against the oppressed people of Palestine and other countries in the region,” Iranian media quoted Pezeshkian as saying.
Shiite Hezbollah and Palestinian Sunni Hamas are part of a group of Iran-backed groups in the region known as the “Axis of Resistance.”
Earlier, Cursor wrote that Iran is increasing production of ballistic missiles for Hezbollah and Russia.