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For those who are interested in Full EN translation of my interview with @JZarif :
https://etemadonline.com/content/461844 

❌We didn’t trust the Europeans and didn’t overestimate their power. They indeed proved this time that they cannot do anything when it comes to  sanctions./1 https://twitter.com/saramassoumi/status/1352853778983223296
❌European companies look at Washington before looking at their own capitals.
❌European companies don’t recognize Europe’s independence  and  sovereignty.
❌In international relations If you go after a win-lose game, everyone will lose. Some may lose more and some less./2
🔸Fighting  is much  more costly  than diplomacy.
🔸we are spending very little on diplomacy right now.
🔸We should develop a neighborhood policy that is based on building mutual trust and dependence.
🔸We don’t, and can’t, give orders to Hezbollah./3
🔸The  Supreme Leader said that “He (Zarif) expresses  his  opinions, even  if  they are against mine.”
🔸I don’t say we should have tension with the US every day in order to maintain our identity and our different perspectives./4
🔸If you want Iran’s human rights situation to be reformed, you have to work from the inside. Foreign pressure has never helped to improve human rights in any country, and it was never meant to do so.
🔸I was  the one who paid the price of dialogue with theUS forthe first time/5
🔸Trump is still a serious force inside the US. He came to power and destroyed our de-escalation policy.
🔸In my personal view (which is not that of the country), we should delineate the final picture  of  relations  with  the US./6
🔸Instead  of  getting  dependent  on  the  world, we should have made the global market dependent on ourselves.
🔸In many cases we caused the country to lose the foreign investment that could make the country immune.Foreign  trade  doesn’t  bring you immunity./7
Especial thanks to @Khaaasteh for translation and @Nahal84553669.
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