Baku-APA. Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami expressed hope on Friday that US President-elect Donald Trump would avoid sticking to US policy of tensions with Tehran, APA reports quoting sputniknews.
Trump secured an unexpected victory in the presidential election on Tuesday with 290 electoral votes against his rival Hillary Clinton's 232. The inauguration will be held on January 20, 2017.
[Trump] be careful not give lion's tail another twist; I hope you will hear these words and realize that the Islamic Iran has a manner and a motto and that is: we will resist until our last breath… We hope that the new US president will fulfill his recent statements that he does not want tensions with any other country, and if not, at least come to know the Iranian nation and avoid doing anything wrong," Khatami said, as quoted by Fars News Agency.
The preacher recalled that Iran's policy was "correct" as the country had not interfered in other countries' internal affairs and respected the people of the world and their choices. During his pre-election rally in September, Trump said that if the Iranian navy inappropriately approached US warships, Tehran's navy would be "shot out" of the water. On Thursday, Chief of Staff for the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Baqeri said that Trump's threats toward the Iranian navy should be perceived as a joke. Trump also suggested he would dismantle the "disastrous deal with Iran," referring to the mid-2015 nuclear deal, negotiated by the P5+1 negotiators China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus Germany.
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