President Rouhani: Failed sanctions policy against Iran should become history

President Hassan Rouhani has highlighted the outgoing US administration’s repeated failures in its policy of pressure and illegal sanctions on Iran, advising all those who are attempting to defeat the Islamic Republic through similar approaches to abandon such a “wrong and failed policy.”

According to Press TV, at a meeting of the government’s economic coordination headquarters in Tehran on Tuesday, Rouhani said US President Donald Trump failed to recognize the realities of Iran’s capabilities and acted based on his own illusions in dealing with the nation.

Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential race was mainly rooted in his failure in over two years of economic war on Iran — along with his other foreign policy defeats, Rouhani said.

“Even though the economic war has inflicted a lot of damage, especially on public livelihoods, the architects of the [anti-Iran] sanctions and warmongers who assumed that Iran’s economy would collapse in the short term are leaving the White House. This is while the Iranian nation has proudly emerged victorious in an all-out economic war stronger than ever,” Rouhani said.

He thus advised “all those who seek…to defeat Iran through measures like sanctions to abandon their flawed and failed approach and let it become history.”

Elsewhere, the president said the national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year, which begins on March 21, 2021, has been drafted on the basis of country’s economic capacities and the world realities.

“Contrary to the perception and analysis of those who believe the budget rests upon international developments and results of the US (presidential) election, we emphasize that the national budget bill has been prepared precisely on the basis of Iran’s economic capacities,” Rouhani noted.

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