US sanctions made Iran stronger, says Hassan Rouhani

TIL Desk/World/Tehran/ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said here on Thursday that the US sanctions against Tehran have made the Islamic Republic even “stronger”. Despite “US plots and pressures”, it was the Iranian nation “who dared to shower missiles on one of the US” important military bases in the region.

Rouhani was referring to the January 8 Iranian airstrikes on two military bases in Iraq that houses US troops. The airstrikes were in retaliation to the January 3 killing of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, who died due to an American drone attack near the Baghdad airport.

Iran”s resistance and responses to the US threats have made the Americans step back, Rouhani said, adding: “It has been proven to the world and to the Americans that their plan to exert maximum sanction pressures Iran was a miscalculation.” US plots have made the Iranians “stronger and more solid”, he further said.