TEHRAN - Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani says the United States enmity with the Islamic Republic is nothing new, and that Washington has pursued a policy of “maximum pressure” against the country under successive administrations.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Nasser Kan’ani said the legal and international accountability of the hostile actions of various U.S. administrations against Iran is undeniable.
He said the U.S. “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran has always been on the agenda of all American presidents under the false pretext of defending human rights and democracy.
“But they have not achieved anything more than maximum failure,” the senior Iranian diplomat stressed.
“Why do the Americans not learn from all the scandals caused by their trust in treacherous and hypocritical Israeli advisors?” he said. “Here is the independent and powerful Iran.”
Kana’ani’s remarks came a day after Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that he had received a newly declassified document that former U.S. president Jimmy Carter ordered the CIA in December 1979 to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“This means they have had this intention since the Revolution’s inception. The document mentions propaganda as the way to overthrow the Revolution,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a post on his Twitter account on Monday.
The U.S. and the Islamic Republic have had no diplomatic relations since 1980.
The U.S. has also imposed a trade embargo on Iran since 1995.
Back in May 2018, the U.S. began to unilaterally impose sanctions against Iran after the former president Donald Trump left the Iran nuclear agreement, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The U.S. administration, under Trump, launched what it called a maximum pressure campaign against Iran at the time, targeting the Iranian nation with the “toughest ever” sanctions.
Although Trump failed to reach its professed goals with his maximum pressure campaign, the bans have badly hurt the Iranian population.
The sanctions, preserved under the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden, have restricted the financial channels necessary to pay for basic goods and medicine,