“No sanction, not even crippling ones, can stop a country which has had significant scientific and technological achievements,” Commander of the Iranian Army's Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan said Sunday.
The Iranian commander added that the enemy increased its so-called crippling sanctions after realizing that the people of Iran cannot be challenged or defeated by such measures.
Pourdastan stated that the enemy thinks it can weaken the Iranian nation by imposing such sanctions and does not realize that Iranians will continue their path under the guidance of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
At the beginning of 2012, the US and the European Union imposed new sanctions on Iran’s oil and financial sectors with the goal of preventing other countries from purchasing Iranian oil and conducting transactions with the Central Bank of Iran.
The illegal US-engineered sanctions were imposed based on the unfounded accusation that Iran is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.
Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of International Atomic Energy Agency, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
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