President Hassan Rouhani says the new US administration has admitted that the pressure policy pursued by its predecessor against Iran was wrong, but it has so far failed to take �a serious step� to lift the illegal sanctions Washington has imposed against the Iranian nation. �

Speaking during a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Rouhani stressed that if the administration of US President Joe Biden acknowledges the mistakes of ex-president Donald Trump, it must declare it explicitly and seek to compensate for it as soon as possible as.

�In the current situation, the tone of the new US administration has changed a bit �. and it admits that the previous administration�s measures were wrong. It even took a practical step and took back the letter that the previous administration had sent to the United Nations� as part of an abortive unlawful push last year to make the world body restore its sanctions against Iran.
�However, we have not yet seen a serious step on the part of the US regarding the lifting of sanctions and explicitly recognizing the right of the [Iranian] people, which are our main issue,� Rouhani said.
In 2015, Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany, signed a nuclear agreement, officially called the Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Three years later, however, Trump unilaterally pulled�the US out of the JCPOA, which was ratified in the form of UN Security Council�Resolution 2231, and reinstated the anti-Iran sanctions that had been lifted by the deal.

The Biden administration has indicated its willingness to rejoin the JCPOA, but conditioned the move on Tehran�s resumption of the commitments it has suspended under the accord in response to the US withdrawal and the other parties� failure to meet their end of the bargain.

Last month, Washington retreated from some of its anti-Iran measures as it lifted travel restrictions on Iranian envoys accredited to the United Nations and reversed a claim by the Trump administration that it had triggered the so-called snapback provision in the JCPOA and re-imposed all UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic.