Rouhani: ‘Iran Won’t Yield To Economic, Psychological Pressure’

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President of the Islamic Republic Hassan Rouhani said the US is wishfully thinking that it can subdue Iran with economic and psychological strain, emphasizing that Iran will not yield to such pressure.

In an address to a large gathering of people in the city of Khoy, West Azarbaijan Province, on Monday, Rouhani said the US was wrong to think Iran would surrender under pressure.

According to excerpts of his remarks posted on the official website of the Iranian Presidency, Rouhani said the US had suffered “back-to-back defeats” in the region and was now attempting to take revenge for those failures on the Iranian nation.

He further considered that America’s failures were a result of resistance by all regional nations, adding that Iran had prevented the US from getting the Daesh [the Arabic acronym for terrorist ‘ISIS/ISIL’ group] to establish dominion over the region.

“We know you’re angry! [But] correct your mistakes! You cannot cut Iran’s oil exports,” Rouhani said.

The US has unilaterally withdrawn from a multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, imposing sanctions on the country, including on its oil sales, and declaring that it would bring the country's crude exports to “zero.”

The US withdrawal and the sanctions caused some difficulties for Iran and its other partners in the nuclear deal — namely the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, Germany, and the European Union [EU] — but they are working to shield their trade relations and the deal from American sabotage.

Rouhani said it was the first time that America was making a decision to act against a certain nation and the entire world was resisting that decision.

In restoring the so-called primary sanctions against Iran and the “secondary sanctions” against Iran’s partners, the administration of US President Donald Trump has been hoping to get the other parties to the nuclear deal with Iran to likewise scrap the deal, only to see them close ranks in defending the agreement and work harder to sustain it.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team