Rouhani: Iran Doing All It Can to Neutralize Sanctions

Date: 25 December 2020 - 21:23

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TEHRAN (Press TV) -- President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday Iran is doing all in its power to neutralize and eliminate unjust and illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the administration of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump.
"We are doing all we can to render these sanctions ineffective and eliminate them and everybody must work to this end. All three branches of power must join hands under the guidance of the Leader and I promise people that they will see better days in terms of livelihood, health, and shattering of sanctions,” he said.
Rouhani called the sanctions "the joint work of the U.S. radicals, Zionists, and the reactionary regional regimes.”
Trump returned the United States’ stringent economic sanctions against Iran after taking the U.S. out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multi-party nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and world powers.
Last Wednesday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei advised the nation and government to focus primarily on trying to neutralize the sanctions instead of seeking to secure their removal.
Rouhani reiterated Ayatollah Khamenei’s assertion, saying, concerning the sanctions, the first step to be taken was to help neutralize or lessen their effect. "The second action is to eliminate and break down the sanctions,” the president noted, citing the Leader.
He referred to the Islamic Republic’s success in replacing its oil exports, which the enemy had sanctioned, with petrochemical sales as an instance of its triumph in the face of the illegal bans.
"We should extinguish the blaze of the sanctions as soon as possible. We don’t need anybody’s pity,” he said.
The Iranian president said by potentially relieving the sanctions, the enemy would not have done Iran any additional and undue favor, adding that by stopping the sanctions, the Americans would have actually just "stopped their crime” against the Iranian people.
The president promised the people that they would be witnessing better conditions concerning their livelihood and health system towards the end of the year and throughout the upcoming one.
Iran’s recent inauguration of a whole host of developmental projects "delivered a big blow to the global arrogant powers that had sought to enforce a closure on the country,” Rouhani said.