Alwaght- Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi said Tuesday that the enemies' efforts to isolate the Islamic Republic and drive the nation to despair have failed, whereas all indicators attest to growth and progress in the country.
Raeisi told a news conference in Tehran that while Iran has forged strong relations with Islamic and like-minded countries, its enemies are also knocking on the door after initially trying to ditch the country when riots broke out following the death of a young woman last September.
“The enemy tried to follow two strategies of isolating Iran in the world and disappointing the people inside, which it failed in both.
“They did not succeed in isolating Islamic Iran because we follow numerous agendas in our foreign policy all at the same time, one of which is the JCPOA,” the president said, referring to the 2015 nuclear deal which is on life support after the US withdrawal.
“We followed relations with the neighboring countries as well as Islamic and aligned states, and improved the level of political, economic and commercial relations where commercial ties grew 14 percent compared to the previous government,” he said.
“In the area of regional trade ties and business measures which some believed little can be done, the government broke the record and it turned out that there are many capacities in the country,” Raeisi added.
“Relations with Latin America, Africa and many Asian countries and becoming active in the Eurasian Economic Union and membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and recently in BRICS all show that … the enemy did not succeed in its policy to isolate Islamic Iran and our political, commercial and economic situation shows the failure of the enemy in this strategy.”
President Raeisi also touched on the enemies’ project to disappoint the Iranian people.
“Not a few months had passed when a nationwide cyber attack was launched on gas stations.
“Throughout the country, they tried to anger the people by creating problems, but the people carried on vigilantly and with insight and disappointed the enemy.”
When the enemy realized that the people are with the government and the country is progressing, it turned to stoke unrest, the president said.
“It imagined that it could follow through with agitation. Even the Westerners left the negotiation table and pinned their hope on riots.
“They thought that they could achieve their goals in riots, but the people let them down, after which, they immediately messaged that they wanted to go back to the negotiating table and start negotiations,” Raesi said.
“They sought to disappoint the people in various sectors, and the Iranian people disappointed them instead.”
The president said the people's effort and hope has increased day by day, as shown by the indicators of production, science and technology, and knowledge-based initiates of the Iranian youths.
“Today is a day where Islamic Iran is known as an advanced and technological country,” he said.
‘SCO, BRICS effective against US unilateralism’
Additionally in his remarks, Raeisi said that the removal of the United States-led sanctions was just one of the cases vigorously pursued by his administration, which he said was also in pursuit of Iran’s accession to regional and trans-regional alliances.
“Coalitions like the SCO and the BRICS are definitely effective against the US unilateralism. Along with them, Iran can be influential with its high capacities, and this influence is two-way,” he asserted.
“Others say that the way out of our problems is the smile of the US or some European countries, but I emphasize that we will not wait for their smiles.”
