Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the country's volunteer police on Thursday that US President Donald Trump's remarks on the upcoming collapse of Iran due to the pressure of the sanctions will not come true.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 04th October, 2018) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the country's volunteer police on Thursday that US President Donald Trump's remarks on the upcoming collapse of Iran due to the pressure of the sanctions will not come true.
Trump has repeatedly said that the Iranian economy would not withstand the sanctions pressure. After the withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposition of restrictions, Washington offered to negotiate a tougher agreement in exchange for sanctions relief, but Tehran ruled out the possibility despite the increasing inflation and refusals of major international companies to stay on the Iranian market.
"I had recently heard that the president of the United States told some of the European leaders to wait for 2-3 months, the Islamic Republic will be finished. Then I remembered the same words that, 40 years ago, those who were the servants of the United States inside the country were telling themselves. They used to say we would be finished in six months but it did not happen ... I remembered the folk poetry that says, the camel dreams of cotton-wool [the hungry cat dreams of mice]," the supreme leader said in Tehran addressing the Basij forces, as quoted by the Tasnim news agency.
Earlier this year, the United States withdrew from the Iranian nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and reimposed sanctions against Tehran and any country doing business with Iranian companies.
The first batch of economic restrictions, which include a ban on purchasing the US Currency, trading in gold and other precious metals, buying aluminum and steel for industrial purposes, and performing activities related to Iran's sovereign debt, took effect on August 7. The second portion, including sanctions on Iran's energy sector and foreign transactions, will come into force in November.
