Tehran (IP) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that his government exerted its power to reduce the increased economic pressure from the United States which harms ordinary people in Iran.

Iran Press/Iran News: Speaking on the sideline of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Hassan Rouhani stressed that since May 2019, the worst pressure was put on people, the economy and the oil industry.

"These pressures, while causing problems for the people, also created great successes. For the first time in Iranian history, we were able to pass the economy and budget without oil. It was a year run on oil, especially in the current budget sector," he added.

The President highlighted, "In this year, despite all the pressures, the economic heroes of the country, the nation and all the bodies and those on the scene were able to put our economy in relative stability. This year we reached from 52% to 25% in point to point inflation. It means honor to our great nation. In the first 9 months of the current Iranian year, statistics show that growth has been positive."

He added that in the first quarter and in the second quarter and especially in the third quarter, the economy without oil is positive and the economy with oil is positive. I hope the fourth quarter will have similar figures and that is very important for our history.

He pointed out the political and security issues in the Iranian year, noting: "Our government has begun to reduce its commitments against those that have failed to perform well in the nuclear field, and it has continued in five phases. Almost all cumbersome commitments have been abandoned and the nuclear industry is free to operate. Great things have been done in the nuclear industry that we'll explain in April."

The president said that the United States had defeated by Iran in the international court legally the and Iran resolutely stood up to other US plots. Armed forces responded with a roar of rockets that the Americans would never forget, for the first time they received a decisive response for brutal misconduct.

Elsewhere in his remarks, President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran people made the epic from tragedy and triumph from epic in the current Iranian year (starting on March), noting that the current year was a year of great honor for the great Iranian nation because, in all areas where the enemy decided to create complexities for the people so that the Iranian nation succumb to pressure, our people were able to create the epic from tragedy and the triumph out of epic.

Hassan Rouhani said, "I congratulate the New Year to the great nation. It is a regret for us that some of our loved ones are not among us in this Nowruz Eve, either due to the cowardly US assassination or in the bitter incident that happened to the Ukrainian plane or the things that happened in the funeral procession of the great commander Gen, Soleimani in Kerman or because of coronavirus for those who lost their lives in the final weeks of the year. We extend our greetings to all of their families. May Allah have mercy upon those dears." 101

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