US sending messages to Iran and pressuring it: Rouhani
Tehran (KNA) - President Hassan Rouhani says the US is constantly sending messages to Iran to begin negotiations and trying to pressure the Iranian people at the same time.
The president on Saturday evoked memories of the Iraqi-imposed war in the 1980s, saying the Iranian nation will summon the same spirit to withstand economic hardship and US pressure with unity.
"Not a fortnight goes by without a new message coming for us, saying 'we want negotiations here and there and that we want to resolve the issues'," he said at the opening of festival in Tehran.
"Which one should we believe? Your soft messages, or your brutal acts? If you are truthful and like the Iranian nation, why are you pressuring them?" Rouhani said, addressing US leaders.
President Donald Trump pulled out of a landmark nuclear deal with Iran in May and pledged to impose the most restrictive sanctions on Tehran in the belief that more economic pressure would force the country back to the negotiating table.
Rouhani said the US was waging an economic and media war against Iran, adding American leaders were wrong if they thought pressures would make the Islamic Republic bend.
Source: PressTV