President: Enemy aims to shatter national unity key to braving challenges
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic can overcome the country’s hardships through national unity and solidarity, which the enemy is seeking to destroy.
“The enemy’s wish is that we fail to complete our reforms and overcome our problems. But with your help, and through unity and solidarity, we will overcome all challenges,” Pezeshkian said while addressing a ceremony marking “Nurse’s Day” in Tehran.
“We will not surrender and through unity and solidarity we will overcome problems.”
Referring to recent aggression by the Israeli regime against Iran in June, Pezeshkian said, "The Zionist enemy imagined that when it attacked Iran with bombs and missiles, the people would take to the streets and Iran would break apart, but the people gave a response that was unimaginable for them."
He stressed that even Iranians who had not been treated properly in the country, stood by Iran during the 12-day aggression.
Back in June, Israel launched aggression against Iran, triggering a 12-day war that killed over 1000 people, including military commanders, nuclear scientists, and civilians.
The United States also entered the war by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of international law.
However, the problems in the country, mostly economic ones, are partly due to the illegal sanctions imposed by Western countries during the past decades over Iran’s nuclear program.
The economic restrictions even worsened this month following the activation of the so-called snapback mechanism which reinstated international sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.
Despite their failure to fulfil their commitments under the deal, the European parties to the agreement triggered the so-called “snapback” process on the pretext of Iran’s non-compliance with its obligations, leading to the re-imposition of the UN sanctions.
Iranian officials have called their move “null and void” and are trying to counter the sanctions by strengthening economic relations with friendly and neighboring countries.