{"id":33171,"date":"2016-12-14T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2016\/12\/14\/iranian-leadership-trust-in-pragmatic-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:44:57","slug":"iranian-leadership-trust-in-pragmatic-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2016\/12\/14\/iranian-leadership-trust-in-pragmatic-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Leadership Trust in &#8216;Pragmatic&#8217; Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senior Iranian government officials are convinced US President-elect Donald Trump will not walk away from the US end of the nuclear deal with Iran, instead opting for pragmatism and business deals, an analyst has claimed.<br\/><br\/>Nicola Pedde, an Iran expert at Italy\u2019s Institute for Global Studies, was one of a handful of non-Iranians invited to Iran\u2019s first <span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_421_492\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">Tehran Security Conference\u00a0on Dec. 11, which saw the country&#8217;s parliament<\/span>\u00a0<br\/>speaker, defense minister and foreign minister speak, among other leaders.<br\/><br\/>Now back in Rome, Pedde told Defense News that Parliament Speaker Ali\u00a0Larijani and\u00a0Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stood out for their optimism\u00a0about Trump.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They think Trump will be pragmatic, they have no fear about a U-turn on the nuclear deal and believe he will be keen on business with Iran,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Larijani said Trump had been demonized.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the run-up to his election as US president, Trump threatened to &#8220;rip to shreds&#8221; the nuclear deal, calling it &#8220;the worst deal ever negotiated&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pedde said that the Iranians, however, were betting on Trump sticking to the deal\u00a0\u2014\u00a0if he could ignore hawkish colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They say their fear is that hawks in the US administration will try to provoke Iran, and they claim the most important thing will be to not respond,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan\u00a0told\u00a0the conference that if &#8220;enemies&#8221; did start a war against Iran, Israel\u00a0and the Gulf states would be &#8220;destroyed,&#8221; reported an\u00a0Iranian news agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3341\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump-iran.jpg_8ac6a5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump-iran.jpg_8ac6a5.jpg 5000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump-iran.jpg_8ac6a5.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump-iran.jpg_8ac6a5.jpg?resize=768,513 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump-iran.jpg_8ac6a5.jpg?resize=1024,684 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump-iran.jpg_8ac6a5.jpg?resize=1536,1026 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/trump-iran.jpg_8ac6a5.jpg?resize=2048,1368 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5000px) 100vw, 5000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>An Iranian man holds a local newspaper displaying a portrait of Donald Trump a day after his election as the new US president, in the capital Tehran, on Nov. 10, 2016. 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