TEHRAN, Aug 5 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, said that, enemies have waged “a psychological warfare” against the country, to downplay its achievements.
One of the enemy’s main strategies in harming Iran’s economy, beside sanctions, is to “portray a poor image of the administration’s economic management and downplay the country’s achievements through psychological warfare,” Rouhani said, in a meeting at the administration’s Economic Coordination Headquarters yesterday.
Through distorting realities, imposing sanctions and obstructing Iran’s economic progress, the enemy seeks to disappoint the people, he said.
The Iranian president defended his administration’s performance, despite U.S. sanctions, which he called an economic war against the Islamic republic, saying that, the administration has been able to reduce its reliance on oil and continue the process of non-oil exports.
Iran has been under U.S. economic and financial sanctions for nearly two years, after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the Iranian multilateral nuclear deal in May, 2018.
Washington called for talks on new deal for further limits on Iran’s nuclear programme and its ballistic missile activities, but Tehran dismissed the calls and insisted on maintenance of its “civilian” nuclear programme and “deterrent” ballistic missile development.– NNN-TASNIM
