An informed source said that US national security officials had agreed on several options to deal with Iran, while Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that his country had foiled the comprehensive economic war that it was subjected to during the era of outgoing US President Donald Trump.
Reuters quoted a senior US administration official as saying that national security officials had agreed on several options to bring to Trump soon.
The official said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Acting Secretary of Defense, National Security Adviser and other senior officials were present during discussions on Iran.
For his part, the Iranian president said that the US economic pressure on his country was the result of an alliance between reactionary countries in the region, Israel and extremists in the United States.
And he stressed in the Iranian government meeting that his country had foiled the comprehensive economic war imposed by Trump on it.
On Wednesday, Rouhani compared the outgoing US president to the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRNA) quoted Rouhani as saying, "These two madmen imposed two wars on the Islamic Republic; one of them is military (from 1980 to 1988), and the other is economic. better than him".
"We have witnessed that the Iranian people, with their steadfastness and steadfastness, defeated those who were waiting for their defeat, and we must prevent the economic war from achieving its goals," he added.
Conditional readiness It
should be noted that the Iranian president earlier indicated his country's readiness to cooperate with US President-elect Joe Biden.
Rouhani said that his country is ready to conduct negotiations with the United States, on the condition that Biden return to the 2015 nuclear deal and lift the sanctions imposed by Trump on Iran.
In 2018, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear deal, which was aimed at preventing Tehran from obtaining a nuclear arsenal in exchange for providing it with economic benefits.
The United States is exerting maximum pressure on Iran to force it to negotiate a broader agreement that goes beyond its nuclear program.
But Tehran confirms that it will not enter into any negotiations with the United States unless Washington returns things to what they were, and lifted all the sanctions it imposed on Iran after Trump withdrew from the agreement.