Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani made comments on Tuesday after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that Washington will increase the financial pressure on Iran by imposing the "strongest sanctions in history" on Tehran if it refuses to change the course of its foreign and domestic policy.
Shamkhani affirmed that Iran wont stop its nuclear activity. Elsewhere in his remarks, the senior Iranian official said Iran's enrichment right has been officially recognized in the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231. He emphasized that the "futile" US efforts to limit the Tehran's strength indicates Washington's weakness and is a clear indication of Iran's power in domestic and foreign arenas.
Shamkhani said the world confirms that Iran has played a leading role in preventing the expansion of ISIS in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and even Europe.
Iranian President Rouhani said: “The Iranian nation is not afraid of empty threats and is so much greater than Trump, Pompeo, (John) Bolton and all these people who have gathered in Washington as extremists. The Iranian nation have been victorious in all periods of history and I want to say it here, Mr Trump! This nation will be victorious against you."
In a Monday statement, the Iranian foreign ministry said the cheap, baseless, insulting and interventionist remarks made by Mike Pompeo and the accusations he leveled against the great and civilized Iranian nation are indicative of US officials’ despair and desperation in the face of the Iranian nation.
“Pompeo’s remarks once again revealed the poor intelligence, weak oversight, analytical backwardness and confusion in decision-making processes in the United States, and showed radical and hawkish currents in the US neither know history, nor can learn lessons from it,” said the statement of the Iranian ministry of foreign affairs.
It also said that the United States is not entitled to tell Iran what policies it should or should not adopt in its own region as all the problems facing the Middle East region, including those in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and Afghanistan, all emanate from the interference and encroachment of Washington and the medieval dictatorial governments of its allies.
