TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Ebrahim Raisi says the United States’ maximum pressure policy against the Islamic Republic has failed in the face of Iran’s maximum resistance campaign.
Raeisi made the remarks on Wednesday morning, during a visit to the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
He said even U.S. officials themselves have admitted to the failure of the maximum pressure policy, which was initiated by former U.S. president Donald Trump in 2018 and has been maintained under the new administration of Joe Biden.
“When the Americans officially acknowledge that they have failed in maximum pressure (policy), an ignominious failure, this is a victory for the Iranian nation,” the Iranian president stated.
“Today, the nation’s maximum resistance to seditions and sanctions has borne fruit and the maximum pressure has failed,” he added.
According to Raisi, whenever Iran resisted against the enemy, including during the era of Iraq’s imposed war and other conspiracies hatched against the country, “divine victory accompanied us.”
He said every success that has been attained in the country was made possible only where people were enabled.
“Wherever we succeeded, it was because we had handed the field over to the people, and wherever we did not define a significant presence for the people, we did not succeed,” the president said.
Further highlighting the ideals of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Raisi said relying on God and engaging people were two basic principles invoked by the “great reformer of the century” to lead the Iranian nation toward the Revolution.
“Imam’s advice to support [ordinary] people and hut-dwellers was a truth and was drawn from a belief,” he noted.
“Attending to people is a principle for all administrations, [including] our administration … We need to take lessons from the Imam’s political view,” Raisi added.
Raisi said, “The field of justice requires men and women who exercise justice and one of the central points of change in society is that people should be fair, have a fair law and make fair judgments”.
The President pointed out, “At a time when everyone was fleeing from justice in word and deed, the late Imam taught us that in this society, change can be made in the name of religion and justice, and he himself raised the banner of justice”.
Raisi said: “In the last 40 years, very good actions and services have been done in various fields, but the enemies are still trying to prevent the religious system from being fully established and developed, but they have not succeeded so far and will not have the opportunity in the future as well”.
Referring to the Supreme Leader’s statements regarding the Americans’ official acknowledgment of the scandalous defeat of their maximum pressure, the President said, “With this defeat, it became clear that the result of resistance and endurance will be divine victory”.
Raisi emphasized the need to work on the path of the late Imam Khomeini and said, “Saving the country, solving problems and prosperity of people’s lives depends on acting on this line of light”.
