Iran to Trump: Change policy of 'max pressure'

Iran on Saturday urged US President-elect Donald Trump to reconsider the "maximum pressure" policy he pursued against Tehran during his first term. "Trump must show that he is not following the wrong policies of the past," Iranian vice president for strategic affairs

Mohammad Javad Zarif

said Saturday. Zarif, a veteran diplomat who previously served as foreign minister, helped seal the

2015 nuclear accord

between Tehran and the West. The US, under Trump, unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018.
Foreign min denies plot
Iran's foreign minister

Abbas Araqchi

denied US charges that Tehran was linked to an alleged plot to kill Trump and called on Saturday for

confidence-building

between the two hostile countries. "A new scenario is fabricated ... as a killer does not exist in reality, scriptwriters are brought in to manufacture a third-rate comedy," Araqchi said on X.