President Rouhani:

Enemies Have to Submit to Will of Iranian Nation

Date: 25 December 2019 - 22:18

News ID: ۷۴۳۷۸

TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday the enemies have no choice but to submit to the will of the Iranian nation.
Rouhani told a weekly cabinet session that the enemies have added on their desperate efforts to enter into talks with the Islamic Republic.
"While the solution that they offer might be unacceptable to us, the fact that everybody is confident that people of Iran are successful and would not give in is an important issue that is very palpable today,” the president stated.
Rouhani said Iran is not the only nation that is bearing the brunt of the economic problems caused by the U.S. pressure campaign.
He referred to his meetings with world leaders that took place on the sidelines of the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 last week.
"In a four-way forum, participated by Iran, Malaysia, Turkey and Qatar, we realized that other countries are also experiencing difficulties in their interactions with the U.S.,” he said.
The leader of one of the participating states, President Rouhani recounted, talked about the weapons his country have purchased from the U.S. and the problems they are now facing in procuring spare parts, because the Americans are demanding several times the actual price of those weapons for maintenance services.
Rouhani said there was consensus among several participants in the Kuala Lumpur Summit on the need for ditching the dollar.
"Cryptocurrency and exchanges

of national currencies and gold were among the issues raised at the summit, and the four aforementioned countries agreed to find ways” to promote those mechanisms, he said.
The problems currently facing the Iranian nation are more or less similar to those the other states are grappling with, he pointed out, stressing that all countries, including those that took part in the Kuala Lumpur Summit, blame the US for the pressure campaign on the Iranian nation.
"Nobody has doubts about the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran has completely fulfilled its commitments and taken steps within the framework of regional and global peace, stability and security,” Rouhani said, adding that "It is the opposite side that has violated its obligations.”
He was referring to Tehran’s commitments under a nuclear deal it signed in 2015 with the P5+1 group of states — comprising the United States, the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany.
In May 2018, the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the deal that had been endorsed by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
Since then, the administration of President Donald Trump has unleashed the "toughest ever” sanctions against Tehran, notably targeting its key oil exports.
Washington’s JCPOA exit and subsequent re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran have left the future of the historic agreement in limbo.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Rouhani expressed Iran’s readiness to hold talks with the P5+1 countries if they show their resolve to fulfill their commitments and attempt to make up for their past mistakes.
Both Iran and Japan, he emphasized, have put forth proposals in that regard.