translated from Spanish: Iran’s president calls on Biden to return to nuclear deal

Iran’s president asked U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to “compensate past mistakes” and return the United States to the 2015 nuclear deal signed by Tehran with several international powers, a state news agency said Sunday. Hasan Rohaní’s statements were the highest-level comment in Iran on the election result after Biden and the elected vice president Kamala Harris were given as winners in the November 3 election.” Now there has been an opportunity for the next U.S. government to make up for past mistakes and return to the path of compliance with international agreements through respect for international standards,” Rohaní said, according to statements cited by the state agency IRNA. Tensions between Iran and the United States soared during outgoing President Donald Trump’s tenure and hit the ceiling this year. One of Trump’s most prominent foreign policy decisions was to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the nuclear deal in 2018. The agreement limited uranium enrichment in Iran in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. After leaving the pact, the United States reintroded harsh sanctions on Iran that have hampered its economy, which then suffered another severe setback from the coronavirus pandemic. In an effort to persuade Europe to find a way to circumvent sanctions, Iran has abandoned the limits set by the agreement.” The people of Iran, through their heroic resistance against the imposed economic war, demonstrated that American politics of maximum pressure was doomed to fail.” Iran “considers a constructive dialogue with the world as a strategy,” he added. Meanwhile, Iran on Sunday recorded its highest number of deaths from the coronavirus, with 459 new deaths. The country has reported a total of 38,291 deaths from the virus. In the previous 24 hours, another 9,263 cases of the virus were confirmed, bringing the total number of confirmed contagions in Iran to more than 682,000 since February. The country has struggled to contain the pandemic and recorded daily records and upticks over the past month. The capital, Tehran, has been the hardest hit and recently expanded some quarantine measures to the entire city.

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