Iranian President Hassan Rouhani submitted the budget bill for the following Iranian year (starting on March 21, 2019) to Iranian Parliament (Majlis) on Tuesday.
At the open session of the Iranian Parliament, Rouhani said the the next year’s budget bill had been adjusted to take account of Washington’s “cruel” measures against Tehran.
“In the budget bill that is being submitted today, there have been some amendments according to some orders issued by the Supreme Leader, [Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei].”
Regarding the US pressures on Iran, Rouhani said, “The US sees Iran as an obstacle on their path. Whenever we could create a significant move, they stood against us.”
“The real objective of the US in all of this conspiracy and sanction and pressure… is to bring the powerful Islamic Republic of Iran to its knees,” he said, vowing that the US “will definitely be defeated.”
President Rouhani noted meanwhile that “no one says that the sanctions cannot affect the lives of the people, and of course, no one can say that they will succeed.”
He also said that if the budget bill were not oil dependent, it would be less effective, adding that the budget of the last year and this year could have been oil-independent.
Source: Agencies
