Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election "changes nothing" for Iran, according to the Iranian head of state, quoted today by the official news agency Irna.
"It doesn't change anything for us," said Massoud Pezeshkian, whose country severed diplomatic relations with the United States four decades ago.
"Our priority is to develop relations with our neighbors and with Islamic countries," Pezeshkian added.
On the other hand, the Iranian press today published extensive reports on the results of the presidential elections in the United States.
"The United States is the great Satan, no matter who is the President," wrote the ultraconservative newspaper Kayhan, stressing that US policy "has not changed at all during the four years" of Joe Biden's administration.
The pro-government newspaper Iran points out that "the Iranian economy has been affected by the pressure."
"But the situation is different now and Trump will no longer be able to isolate Iran and harm the economy," it writes.
Outside this context, the reformist daily Ham Mihan criticized the "diplomatic statements" in Iran, according to which Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in the House White "make no difference".
This morning, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei, also quoted by the state news agency IRNA, indicated that Trump's victory is an opportunity to "correct Washington's wrong approaches and policies" towards Tehran.
"The US elections are an opportunity to reassess and correct Washington's wrong approaches and policies" towards Iran, Baghaei said.
The diplomat indicated that Tehran has had "deeply bitter experiences with the policies of several US administrations", a country with which it has been at odds since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Baghaei's statements came a day after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, having applied the so-called "maximum pressure" policy towards Iran during his first term (2017-2021).
Trump unilaterally abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal, which limited Iran's nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, and reimposed restrictive measures that have sunk the country's economy.
In her first official reaction, on Wednesday, Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said: "The election of the President of the United States has no clear relation to us."
Despite this, the Iranian currency, the rial, has fallen to a historic low against the US dollar.
Relations between Iran and the United States, which have been very tense in recent decades, are at their worst since the start of the war between Israel, which has Washington as its main ally, and the Islamist movements Hamas and Hezbollah, supported by Tehran.
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