Still hope for peace?: A billboard reading, in Persian, ‘America is the great Satan’ and, in Hebrew, ‘America will throw you away like used toilet paper in Tehran’. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
PRESIDENT Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and world powers, imposed tough economic sanctions on Iran and ordered the killing of its top general.
Yet despite that charged history, many former officials, pundits and newspaper editorials in Iran have openly called for the government to engage with Trump in the week since his re-election. Shargh, the main reformist daily newspaper, said in a front-page editorial that Iran’s new, more moderate president, Masoud Pezeshkian, must “avoid past mistakes and assume a pragmatic and multidimensional policy.”
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