“Just as the delusional Saddam had postponed his meeting about his war with Iran until next week in Ahwaz (!), the members of US administration repeated the same thing the Saddam did, saying after tearing down the JCPOA and imposing the economic war that we will enter Tehran next month and they will not see the fortieth anniversary of the revolution; they had such fantasies,” Rouhani stated.

Rouhani went on to say: “But these people, like Saddam, have not achieved any of their goals and have made mistakes in all calculations. The same JCPOA agreement and Resolution 2231 stood against them and they were disgraced in the Security Council”.

“It is unprecedented in the history of the United States for a plan to be submitted to the Security Council after months of preparing the ground and to be defeated,” the president said, adding, “Indonesia and Niger, Tunisia and 13 other countries in the Security Council bravely stood up to the United States, thus shattering the American hegemony”.

Stating that today Iranians are witnessing a recurrence of events such as Saddam's illusion of invading and defeating Iran, Rouhani said: “The United States started an economic war two and a half years ago based on illusions and miscalculations against our country, and their goal was to block all economic ways on Iran”.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has been facing economic sanctions since 1980, but the economic war against Iran began in 2018, and the United States has been waging this war with all its resources,” Rouhani added. (ILKHA)