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Raisi says Iran backs moves to lift sanctions, but won’t bow to pressure
Iran’s new ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi said Tehran backs any diplomatic moves to lift U.S. sanctions but will not bow to pressure, as he took the...
Raisi, who won a June 18 election marked by record abstention, takes office with Iran facing an economy battered by U.S. sanctions, a grinding health crisis and thorny negotiations on its nuclear programme.
- TEHRAN-Agence France-Presse
- Hurriyet
“Sanctions against the nation of Iran must be lifted,” Raisi said at his swearing-in ceremony in parliament. “We will support any diplomatic plans that will realize this goal.”
But he stressed that “the policy of pressure and sanctions will not cause the nation of Iran to back down from…