He made the remarks at the session of Administrative Council of Bushehr Province on Sunday evening. Rouhani paid a one-day visit to the southern province to inaugurate four phases of South Pars gas field.

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Iranian president went on to say that “we should resist to make the United States understand that it is going the wrong direction,” stressing, “the judiciary should sue US authorities and the architects of the sanctions regime for crimes against humanity.”

Referring to the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA, he said, “of course, except for a couple of countries, the entire world denounced this move by the US, acknowledging our cooperation with the Security Council and the United Nations.”

“Americans keep saying that they have been tricked into the nuclear deal, but this is wrong and both sides enjoyed the benefits of the deal, and nobody was tricked,” the official website of Iran’s Presidency quoted him as saying.

“The path we have taken is right and we will continue that. From the first day of this government, I announced that we were seeking to cooperate with the whole world, and we were going to respect anyone who treated us with respect,” said Rouhani.

“It is very important that we have opened 15 phases of South Pars Gas Field in the recent years, despite sanctions and pressures,” he said, adding, “without the JCPOA, opening 15 phases of South Pars in such a short time would have been impossible.”

Meanwhile yesterday, President Rouhani said that the United States wrongly assumes that by imposing the most severe sanctions on Iran, it can return to the country and take control of the Iranian people.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Monday, President Rouhani said that “Americans abandoned their commitments under the nuclear deal without any reason, and began imposing the most severe sanctions on us, assuming that by intensifying pressure, they can return to Iran.”

“Their aim is to come back to Tehran and take over our people, but this aim will be impossible for them to achieve,” he stressed.

Rouhani maintained that the U.S. sanctions did not in fact target the Iranian government and its nuclear industry; rather, they impacted the normal life of the Iranian people.

The president went on to add that the departments related to legal affairs, including the vice-presidency for legal affairs, the Ministry of Justice and the foreign ministry, have been tasked with filing a lawsuit under the ‘crime against humanity’ against all those in the United States who are involved with imposing sanctions against Iran.

Stressing that the U.S., the Israeli regime, and reactionary states in the region have been the cause of Iran’s current economic hardship, Rouhani promised the Iranian nation that his government would continue to make every effort to resolve the problems.