Iran Press/Iran news: Hassan Rouhani made the remarks on Wednesday evening at the closing ceremony of the 37th Iran Book of the Year and the 27th World Award for Book of the Year in the Vahdat Hall in Tehran, saying: "It is very important that we did not miss out our way during the hard times. During the past two years, we were under the strongest economic pressure from the United States, which were illegal and contrary to international obligations, regulations and implemented contrary to UN resolutions.
"This is the first time we are facing the United States, and a UN resolution is in our favor," he said, adding that the US is against the very UN resolution that it voted for and unanimously approved in the Security Council.
"The US sanctioned all the 83 million population of Iran neither individuals nor any specific groups," he added.
"They are not letting us import the necessary parts needed for factories; So, they are working against our workers and our country's production," Rouhani stressed.
The President further stressed that the US sanctions in medicine against the Iranian nation are unprecedented.
Rouhani highlighted that the Americans are lying; they are committing a terrorist act when they are sanctioning the banks of Iran and they are making trouble in the way of our exports.
He emphasized that the US has carried out a terrorist act against the Iranian people, stating that with the book, publishing, and awareness, this fact should be elaborated for the people.
Stating that the US is not only the enemy of a state but also it is confronting a nation, Hassan Rouhani said: "The US is a terrorist and it is doing terrorist acts. They are exerting pressure against a great culture-loving nation; a nation with science and knowledge for centuries and millennia."
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