Tehran(IP)- The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said in a meeting with the laborers: "The workers have so far shown that their national motives in all areas; Military, economic, and political are brilliant."

Iran PressIran news: A group of laborers from across the nation met with Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, at the Hussayniyeh of Imam Khomeini (R.A), on May 09, 2022.

Referring to the services of workers to the country in the military and economic fields, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said: "During the sacred defense and the war imposed by Saddam's Ba'athist regime against Iran, fourteen thousand workers were martyred."

"In the economic field; From the beginning of the revolution, and especially in the last ten or fifteen years, the obvious and declared policy of the enemy was to destroy production in Iran," Ayatollah Khamenei added.

sanctions were imposed to shut down  Iran's production

He further referred to Iran's economic sanctions and said: "All these sanctions were to shut down production in the country."

The Leader also stressed that laborers had aborted malicious attempts to exploit their demands as a sign of widespread protests and had proven their allegiance to the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic establishment.

Earlier this year, Ayatollah Khamenei stated that the enemies are waging war against Iran’s economy to bring it to collapse and pit the people against the establishment. 

“The goal of the enemies in this war has been the collapse of the Iranian economy; that was their intention. Now, the collapse of the economy was, of course, a prelude in order to set the people against the Islamic Republic by destroying the Iranian economy and to carry out their malicious political intentions in this way,” the Leader said in an address to a group of Iranian producers and entrepreneurs in Tehran on January 30.

Moreover, Ayatollah Khamenei hailed Iranian producers, entrepreneurs, and workers as “officers” of the battle against the enemies’ economic war. 

Iran stands firm on the way of economic growth

“The country's stronghold of production and economy is alive; thank God, it is standing. The army that stood against the enemy - the officers of this holy defense - were the entrepreneurs and capable economic managers. Its warriors were also workers. The workers were the sincere and earnest warriors of this battle. You and all economic actors share in this honor of preserving the country's economy,” the Leader said.

Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated his oft-repeated line that officials should not tie the country's economy to the results of negotiations currently underway in Vienna to remove US sanctions on Iran.

The Leader also described the production as a struggle in the path of Allah, which is known as the principle of jihad in Islam.

“The resistance of the producers against the attack on the economy and the enemy's efforts to prevent the sale of oil and gas and cut foreign exchange resources and against its plans to block Iran's foreign trade is in fact jihad and one of the greatest acts of worship.”

The enemy’s plans to “conquer the production stronghold” of Iran as part of its economic war on the country have failed,The Leader of the Islamic Revolution.

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