Official: Iranian Nation to Judge US Behavior by Actions Not Words

A senior Iranian official underscored the necessity for fundamental and practical changes in Washington’s wrong approaches towards the Iranian nation, and said Tehran will judge the US by its actions not words.

The remarks were made by Spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Ramin Mehman-Parast in reaction to the Nov 6 US presidential elections in which Barack Obama was reelected.

He said respect for rights of the Iranian nation will help reduce Tehran’s distrust towards Washington.

Mehman-Parast underlined the need for fundamental and practical changes in the US wrong approach towards the Iranian nation, and stressed that Iran will judge the US by its actions not words.

He emphasized that Iran’s policy is based on respecting people’s votes, and called on Washington to meet the voters’ demands regarding change and improving their welfare.

The outcome of the US presidential election showed that Americans want a president that avoids extremist and unilateral policies and works to solve the people’s problems and improve the country’s economic situation, he added.

The United States and Iran broke diplomatic relations in April 1980, after Iranian students seized the United States’ espionage center at its embassy in Tehran. The two countries have had tense relations ever since.

Tehran has been under Washington sanctions after the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled a US-backed monarch in the country.

The two countries’ relations deteriorated following Iran’s progress in the field of civilian nuclear technology. Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Also during the recent post-election events in Iran, Iranian officials found a number of documents as well as a series of confessions extracted from the detainees substantiating US attempts to stoke unrests in the country.