I'm Iranian. Yes, the president promised that, just like he promised to end Internet censorship yet I still need a VPN to do ANYTHING online. Let me cut the long story short:
- True power is in the hands of the supreme leader and the president is a puppet.
- The Iranian regime does not care about Palestine but all they care about is opposing the west. The regime opposes a two state solution and demands a single state one (Palestine only and they want to turn Palestine into a puppet for the regime).
- Hamas is a proxy of the regime, be careful with it, don't trust it.
On a side note I hate it when foreigners treat the problems of the people of the middle east like it's a sports match or something. Leftist people on the internet seem to have a soft spot for the regime because it opposes western imperialism I guess. What they don't realize is that the regime is trying to build its own empire but it can't. Imperialism is imperialism. People of the middle east are people, not horses in a race to bet on. But I understand that our misery is just entertainment to people in the west, all they want to do is to pick a side like betting on a horse and the fighting on twitter to show how morally good they are for "caring" about people somewhere else on the globe. We are not horses, we are people.
Because the regime is desperate. Iran is facing many challenges. The economy is fucked, people are VERY unhappy, we don't have enough electricity and face power outages on a daily basis, meat is so expensive compared to the wages of the people that many rarely eat meat because they can't afford. Medicinal shortages are nothing new and if you need meds for illnesses like cancer you have to go to the black market. The regime is corrupt and incompetent and they need the sanctions to stop. Also it's been a couple month that they say the west wants to "snapback the sanctions". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2231