Iran's defense minister, Brigadier General Amir Hatami, in a meeting held in Tehran on Tuesday with senior official at his ministry, emphasized that the enemies are waging a psychological war against Iran, and they want to divide Iranian society, they want to cause a rift between the Iranian people and the government. He stressed that this enemy effort, much like its previous efforts , will end in failure.
Defense minister Hatami warned about enemy efforts to cause a division within Iranian society. He said events happening in the past four decades after the 1979 Islamic Revolution have proven that the Islamic Republic could defeat the enemies, stressing that Islamic Iran, today, is more powerful than before.
Enemies want to show the system's weakness and focus on economic war while the Islamic Republic is growing steadily, the defense minister noted.
'Sanctions cannot stop the Islamic Republic of Iran,' the minister said, adding that the bans and economic threats are opportunities for the country.
He further stressed the need to adopt strategic policies and preserve unity in order to foil the enemies' plots.
Recently, Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, in his keynote speech at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO ) Summit has emphasized that unilateral American sanctions are harming world trade , stressing that America's attempts to impose its policies on other countries is "a real danger which is spreading in the world".
He added: "The most recent example of US cocking a snook at the international community, and ignoring the views of other countries, was when it decided unilaterally to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal (the JCPOA). Iran has abided by all of its commitments and obligations under the JCPOA , and this has been repeatedly verified by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, on 11 occasions".
