TEHRAN -- President Masoud Pezeshkian says it does not make a difference to Iran who wins the U.S. presidential election because the Islamic Republic relies on its inner strength as an honorable nation.
“It makes no difference to us who won the U.S. presidential election, as our country and establishment rely on their inner power as well as an honorable and dignified nation,” Pezeshkian said at a ceremony in the capital Tehran on Thursday.
He emphasized that Iran sees “no limits to the development and expansion of relations with other countries.”
“Expansion of ties with Muslim and neighboring countries is among Iran’s top priorities. We deeply believe in the promotion of unity and solidarity among Muslim countries,” he said. 
“Had all countries of the Muslim world shown fraternity and been united, the Zionist regime would not have dared to commit crimes against oppressed Palestinian and Lebanese peoples in cold blood,” Pezeshkian said.
His deputy for strategic affairs Muhammad Javad Zarif said U.S. voters, including the majority of Muslims, explicitly expressed their resentment to Washington’s shameful year-long complicity in Israeli atrocities across Gaza and massacres in Lebanon.
“We hope the incoming administration of [Donald] Trump and [JD] Vance will honor their campaign promises about stopping wars, and learn the important lesson that the U.S. public taught concerning ending wars and preventing new ones,” Zarif said.
He said Iran, which has well shown its determination and ability to deal with any kind of aggression, is not cowed by threats.
Ebrahim Azizi, head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee at the Iranian parliament, said Trump’s election will neither impact Iran’s strategic policies towards the United States nor prevent the country’s decisive and crushing response to the recent Israeli act of aggression.
“The wicked regime and its master will witness the decisive response,” Azizi pointed out.
Earlier Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeili Baghaei said Iran will judge the new U.S. government on the basis of its policies and approaches.  
Baghaei said Trump’s victory is an opportunity for the United States to reassess its “wrong policies” in the past.
The U.S., under then-president Trump, unilaterally withdrew in 2018 from a nuclear accord signed in 2015 with Iran and imposed a series of draconian sanctions on the Islamic Republic. 
“We have very bitter experiences with the policies and approaches of different U.S. 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 added.
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.