Iran will not falter in the face of Western-imposed sanctions, the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in comments broadcast on state television Monday.
Iran
will
not falter in the face of Western-imposed sanctions, the country's supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in comments broadcast on state television
Monday.
"The firm decision of the Islamic Republic is to resist the
pressures" of Western powers, Khamenei said.
"While the Iranian people have traveled the road to success and see the
signs of new victories to come, the [Western] oppressor is trying to frighten
the Iranian people and officials by brandishing the threat of sanctions."
While analysts and some in
Iran
's
government have said the latest round of sanctions has hit
Iran
's
economy, the supreme leader dismissed claims that the strategy will block his
country from pursuing its goals.
"Western officials have declared on a number of occasions that, with
sanctions and pressure, they want to discourage the people and lead officials
to renounce their plans, but they are mistaken and they will not achieve their
objectives," said Khamenei.
The European Union is joining the
U.S.
in
ratcheting up sanctions on
Iran
over
its nuclear program, which the West believes masks a drive to develop an atomic
weapons capability.
Iran
,
which insists its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes, has
said it is "not concerned" by the imminent EU oil embargo. It says it
will easily be able to sell its oil to other markets.
Iranian political and military officials have threatened to close the strategic
Strait of Hormuz
at the entrance to the Gulf if their country is
threatened by military action or if sanctions halt oil exports.
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