On Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the U.S. presidential election result will not impact Tehran’s policy towards the country.
He said: “Our policy towards the United States is clearly set and does not change with the movement of individuals. It does not matter to us who comes and goes.”
Khamenei was speaking on the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, which coincided with the birthday of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad.
Referring to radical Islamist students who stormed the embassy, taking hostage 52 staff for an eventual 444 days, Khamenei said: “The students’ attack on this den of spies was quite appropriate and wise.”
There have been no U.S.-Iranian diplomatic relations since.
