"The revolutionary message of the people to the hegemonic states was that your pressures are useless and they will even have reverse effects. The vigilant Iranian nation turned these threats into an opportunity for demonstrating the strength and magnificence of the Islamic establishment through understanding the conditions and finding out about the main nature of the imperialistic pressures and sanctions which are aimed at making people withdraw from their revolutionary ideals," Amoli Larijani said addressing a meeting with judiciary officials on Wednesday.
"Iran's revolutionary people once again proved that whenever the enemies of this system are trying to blow a strike at the system's foundation and exert the toughest pressures on the people to make them withdraw their support (for the government), this revolutionary people once again appear on the scene powerfully," Amoli Larijani said.
Earlier this week, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast underlined that western sanctions and boycotts cannot force the Iranian nation to bow to pressures or leave the path of the Islamic Revolution.
Mehman-Parast made the remarks to FNA and on the sidelines of the massive public turnout in Tehran in the February 10th rallies marking the 34th anniversary of the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution.
"The people with their turnout showed that although the sanctions may have caused economic pressures, they cannot make the Iranian nation who have paid a hefty price for their revolution to quit the scene," he said.
Earlier this month, Mehman-Parast said the US and its western allies' new sanctions against Iran will not discourage the Iranian nation, and added that the government is finding ways to bypass the impacts of sanctions.
He said all anti-Iran moves are because of the Islamic Republic's peaceful nuclear program while enemies have not been successful in providing any documents proving Iran's deviation from peaceful purposes.
The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic.
Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad. Tehran also stresses that the country is pursuing a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Iran is under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions and the unilateral western embargos for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment, saying the demand is politically tainted and illogical.
Iran has so far ruled out halting or limiting its nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives, saying that renouncing its rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would encourage the world powers to put further pressure on the country and would not lead to a change in the West's hard-line stance on Tehran.
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