Iran President Rouhani slams Trump administration as 'terrorist' amid renewed tensions

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani once again has slammed Trump ministration on vember 19, Wednesday and accused country of acting as a 'terrorist' following a rocket attack on Baghd Embassy that killed a child. Tehran continues to trumpet anti-American criticism as it waits to see what President-elect Joe Biden will do once he takes office in January.

On Tuesday, rockets struck Iraq’s capital with four landings inside heavily fortified Green Zone, killing a child and wounding at least five people. renewed attacks indicate an end to an informal truce anunced by Iran-backed militias in October. 

Rouhani, who signed 2015 nuclear deal which is set to expire in June 2021, repeated common Iranian attack on Trump ministration and claimed that ' US government is a terrorist', according to Iran's state-run Fars News ncy.

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Biden may ease Trump's 'maximum pressure': Experts

According to experts, Biden may ease Trump's 'maximum pressure' campaign against Iran when he takes office and possibly offer limited sanctions relief as a goodwill gesture in hope of restoring Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), from which Trump withdrew in 2018.

Meanwhile, Rouhani has faced criticism from conservative hardliners in Iran for agreeing to beleaguered JCPOA, which ultimately brought a smaller than expected ecomic benefit to Iran. upcoming elections in Iran, due in June 2021, are expected to bring a hardliner to power, possibly even a candidate from powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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'Iran continued to interact with world'

Defending his ministration's record, Rouhani said that his regime has ended arms embargo and continued to interact with world. "I have always said that next US ministration will have to lift sanctions because maximum US pressure on Iran failed," he was quoted as saying by state-run news ncy.

Meanwhile, outgoing Trump ministration is trying to push more sanctions on Iran so that its ecomy collapses before end of president's term. However, continued militia attacks are feared to increase tensions ahe of Trump's exit.  

US and Iran in January this year came close to open conflict after American assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani in Baghd,  chief of Iran's covert Quds Force and widely considered one of most powerful figures in regime.

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