Regime's Rouhani: Iran facing ‘biggest economic pressure

“This is the biggest pressure on the Iranian economy, but we will hopefully survive it,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Rouhani as saying in a speech marking the 40th regime anniversary.

Rouhani said he was confident the US “would also fail in its economic war against Iran when faced with the Iranian people’s resistance”. 

In 2015, Iran and the P5+1 group of nations (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) signed a landmark agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. 

But in May of last year, US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew his country from the deal before re-imposing sanctions targeting Iran’s banking and energy sectors.