NOURNEWS- Hassan Rouhani said at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that Iran would be defending itself even if it buys a weapon, and that gasoline is not on fire, but blue on fire, and we will put out the flames with it. Let's create tension.
Emphasizing that what the Americans are discussing today about arms embargoes is an integral part of the UN Security Council, and with any statement or mechanism that would return the arms embargo, the Iranian response is the same as in the last paragraph of my response to the letter. The country has been announced.
Rouhani clarified: "They know what serious consequences and historic failures will be for them if they make such a mistake."
The text of the President's speech at the Cabinet meeting is as follows:
in the name of God
We are on the eve of the blessed birth of Imam Mojtaba (AS) and the days are the days that are considered in our society as the days of honoring the vulnerable.
This year, with the special features that Iftar is not like in the past, and there is more trouble and pressure on the people, we hope that by appealing to the spirit of Imam Mojtaba and following that noble man, the needy people in our society will have a special enthusiasm. Imam Mojtaba (AS) was the Imam of Peace, the unity of the Islamic Ummah and prudence. That is, if it were not for the peace work of Imam Mojtaba, the possibility of a conflict between Islam and Rome was very likely in those days, and the civil war would have dealt a blow to Islam.
Therefore, peace, unity and prudence are among the characteristics that we see in the political life of Imam Mojtaba (AS). May God make us all among the Shiites and true followers of the Prophet (PBUH) and the Imams (AS) and especially Imam Mujtaba (AS).
The second point is that we are on the eve of 18th of Ordibehesht and 18th of Ordibehesht is the beginning of sanctions and unparalleled pressure in the history of countries and in the history of Iran by an authoritarian regime against the Iranian nation.
Two years ago, on May 7, 1997, contrary to all international laws and regulations, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, US President Trump explicitly withdrew from the UN Security Council in a speech, writing his resignation. He also placed it in front of reporters' cameras.
If we want to take a few minutes to review Iran's activities in the face of the conspiracies in the nuclear field, in fact, we negotiated with the world for two years and four months. We started negotiations in early October 1992, the first wave of which He was in New York with all the P5 + 1 foreign ministers with Iran, and then the negotiations continued at various stages, which I do not want to go into details now.
It took two years and four months for this process to take place, and at the end of January 1994, this agreement was implemented. So we worked for two years and four months to reach a conclusion, and this agreement was implemented for two years and four months. In other words, this trend continued from the end of January 1994, 1995, 1996 to May 1997, which means that it is still almost two years and four months. This agreement was implemented.
These two years and four months have been a great blessing for our country, and I think they are unparalleled in the political history of our country, and I would like to thank the unique efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Atomic Energy Organization, and the Ministry of Defense. They put in a lot of effort.
What has been done means that all the resolutions that were against us have been canceled, that is, a big case that they wanted to continue for decades - the PDM case - that is, the arms embargo that I am now referring to more than a few years later. In the year of the agreement and in Resolution 2231, it was determined that Iran's arms embargo would be lifted, and that our bank accounts, of course, began before this agreement could be implemented.
In the first temporary agreement in Geneva, our property was released, and in the second two years and four months we actually benefited from the diligent efforts of the first two years and four months, our bank accounts were opened, the credits were opened, all the parts in The ports were stopped and released, with the result that after the Borjam agreement in 1995, our economic growth was unparalleled, even globally.
Our oil exports once increased from 900,000 barrels to 2.8 million barrels; all semi-finished projects in all provinces began to be completed; huge refineries, gas units, petrochemical units.
It was very difficult for the opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran to bear the burden of sitting alone at the negotiating table with the rest of the world and removing all the dangers that threatened Iran.
I am saying here again in parentheses: Iraq has been almost under sanctions from the Security Council in 1991 in various ways since it entered into Chapter 7; the United States came and occupied this country; it overthrew Saddam's government and again Iraq in season 7 remained. The government itself was formed by the United States itself in Iraq; it brought Bremer there and ruled him, and again the same sanctions remained. A framework for the constitution was created there, sanctions remained, elections were held and parliament was formed, the president was elected, the prime minister was elected, sanctions remain, and they remain today. Iraq has not withdrawn from Chapter 7 of the Security Council since 1991, but the Islamic Republic of Iran was able to pull the country out of Chapter 7 within two years and four months of negotiations, and this is a political honor in Iran's history.
One of the effects of these efforts was the lifting of the arms embargo, because you know we have two periods in the Borjam agreement, a five-year period in which the arms embargo will be lifted and an 8- and 10-year period in which almost all restrictions will be lifted. We are close to lifting the arms embargo. What did the Americans do now? On May 7, 1997, under pressure from the domestic extremists of the United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, and the stubbornness that Trump had with the previous president, everyone joined hands, and the United States did a very stupid thing and withdrew from this unilateral agreement.
It was in their minds that when they left, we would leave immediately, and when we left, the case would go to the Security Council, and when it went to the Security Council, everything we got would be destroyed overnight.
Trump's disturbed dream was not interpreted by the regime; on Tuesday, May 7, 1997, when Trump's speech ended, I immediately stood in front of the camera and gave a short speech in which he condemned and condemned the work of the United States and violated international law. That said, we're currently in agreement with P5 + 1 instead of P5 + 1, and we're giving it a few weeks to see if they can serve our interests.
This is Trump's first shot, and the first time he saw that it didn't work out and we didn't leave, they were very angry about how we said that; they thought, and all of Trump's advisers said Iran would leave at night and we would go to the Security Council tomorrow morning. That's it; here's the problem.
We gave a deadline of 1 + 4, we extended this deadline for a month, then we gave a deadline of two months, and we gave them a total of one year to reach May 7, 1998, and after a year we said that the deadline is enough; Today we have given you a deadline to fulfill your obligations and since you did not fulfill it, from today we will start to reduce the obligations step by step and we said we will reduce the first part of our obligations, we said we will give you two months to return to the obligations, reduce Second, we reduced the third, and in five steps we reduced all that was needed.
Now we have come to the same level twice, that is, we have backtracked on our commitments; the United States has not come out at all, and the P4 + 1 has largely backed down, so now we have a balance; Let them be willing to fulfill their full obligations. We will return to our full obligations on the same day.
The United States has not succeeded in any way during these two years. He tried to persuade Europe that it was not successful, he tried to come back and say that a new agreement should be written, which was not successful, and he tried to hold a meeting at the United Nations in the presence of Trump himself, but it was unsuccessful.
Today, we are at a point where the United States feels that in the coming months we will achieve a great victory under UNSCR 2231, and that the whole of Iran's arms embargo will be lifted. This arms embargo, which they have been building against us for years, will be completely lifted, and Iran will be able to buy the weapons it needs and will be able to export the weapons it needs.
It has only been a month or two since the Americans woke up from their slumber and realized that they had made a big mistake and left Borjam, and what a great mistake they made to ruin Borjam. Now they have no way forward and no way back. If they continue to do so, the arms embargo will be lifted and Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States, which forced Trump to leave the UN Security Council, will tell Trump that we have made all four mistakes and if they want to do something else. That is to say, we want to go back to Borjam and then go and use Snapback, which is out of Borjam and there is no Borjam anymore.
For the United States, there is no end in sight, and it is over, unless it comes twice, all of us accept it, make up for all our mistakes, and put aside all sanctions, which is now a special condition.
So what Americans are arguing about today is that this is an integral part of the BJP, and if the arms embargo is to return one day under any heading with any statement or mechanism, our response is the same as I wrote in a letter to the leaders in the last paragraph. And good leaders know what our answer will be that day.
In a letter to the leaders of the P5 + 1 and the five countries, I emphasized in the final paragraph that if this were to happen, we would do so, and that they would know what serious consequences would befall them if such a mistake was made. It will be for them, and today I want to thank the great nation of Iran. The people were supportive during the two years and four months that we worked, and if they were not, we would not have succeeded. Were it not for the presence of the people, the demonstrations of the people, we would not have succeeded.
During the negotiations, I had a lot of provincial trips, and one of the officials said that we were looking at some provincial trips and that the government was in agreement with the nation, and that the whole nation supported the government. If the people did not come to the scene, the people would not have supported us, then the Supreme Leader of the Revolution would not have guided us on the issue of Borjam, and the parliament, the Guardian Council and the Supreme National Security Council would not have helped, we would not have achieved our goal. And we were able to achieve this success, and every success we achieved was due to the work and efforts of the people.
In the two years and four months that we used Borjam, it was the people who came on the scene again, they used bank credits, the entrepreneurs came on the scene and a great economic change began in the country, and in the last two years that Forgiveness means that from 1997 until today, all of these were people. That is to say, the intense pressure that has been placed on us in these two years, which is unique in the history of Iran and perhaps in the history of the world, did not bring people to their knees despite all the hardships and problems and despite the hardships in their lives.
It is clear that the people have gone through a difficult time, but they took to the streets every day, protested every day, and today we will be relatively successful if we are able to deal with Corona, and we can do it with all countries, even countries. Compare with developed countries and that we were able to achieve relatively good success and it's still people's business.
The fact that we discussed it at the first meeting of the government today and the Minister of Health said that part of the ventilators can be exported, part of the N95 masks can be exported, part of the three-layer masks can be exported, even C.T. We can issue the scan at some point, this is a sign of knowledge-based companies, a sign of our people, a sign of our engineers, a sign of the sacrifice of our nation that we are in the middle of the battlefield fighting a dangerous enemy in the middle of this battlefield. We export equipment, which means the capability of our nation.
Here again, I would like to emphasize that both the United States and some other countries know that Iran will not in any way violate Resolution 2231. Iran has an inalienable right to withdraw from the arms embargo soon within the framework of this resolution. Our weapon is not gasoline on fire. The weapon we have is water on fire. We extinguish the flames with it, we do not allow a war of flames or tension to arise.
So both the United States and other countries that think they have a conspiracy in front of them should know that this path is closed to them forever. Of course, the wise way is for the United States to repent, return to Barjam, apologize to the nation, pay compensation, and come. This is the best way to do it, but of course this group that is in power today will not come to such a conclusion to see what will happen in the future.
I have two or three other points that I would like to make briefly. First of all, this year, which is the year of production leaps, the government has decided to offer the stocks of its most important and profitable companies on the stock exchange, and this has been done once and will be done again in the coming months. Takes.
Why do we do this? Why do we put these stocks on the stock exchange? First, if we want to make a leap in production, the government must be agile. The government must abandon the enterprises it does not need, those that are not governed. If we want to make a leap in production, we must hand over the economy to private companies and the people. Public non-governmental companies must also be facilitated to enter the economy. .
The second reason is that there is a lot of liquidity in our society and one of the right and healthy ways to collect liquidity and ultimately reduce inflation and curb inflation is to have people on the stock market. If they are listed on the stock exchange, they can own shares and, if necessary, they can add their shares, they can sell them, so liquidity is added up.
Thirdly, state-owned enterprises become transparent; it is very important for us that Shasta be transparent; other stocks of state-owned companies come to the stock exchange, become transparent and everyone sees it; the fight against corruption and rent is in the shadow of transparency, and we will continue to do so. By the end of the year, people will see that we are taking important steps in this direction.
The next thing I need to emphasize is the issue of equity shares; you know that about 50 million people own equity shares; now we have 23 or 24 million households in the country, and each family has an average of one or two or three shareholders. Justice and the ownership of these shares of justice has belonged to the people; since 1984, these debates have been held and approved, and the Supreme Leader has agreed; the expediency council has discussed the system of debates and regulations, but it was not very clear what the paper was. It was as a stock of justice, what does that mean? What the owner is and is not! Do you own Not at all! سود These dividends should have been gradually calculated as payments so that they could own the shares, not the owners, who had the securities.
In the Eleventh Government, all efforts were made to get the people to own these shares, and thank God, the Eleventh Government did a great job; the people felt that they were the owners; they have an account, a book, a site and a system; The people were paid, and the government paid the dividends to the people three times.
It's been a while since these stocks have been made available to the people themselves; we've been doing representation so far, and the people have owned stocks and companies that have been working, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Privatization Department have been doing some kind of monitoring. The Supreme Leader, who was asked to agree with him and him at this critical juncture, is the people who own and own the shares.
People can do two things: I ask the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the officials of the stock exchange who have worked and are working hard in these few days, to explain to the people in a very simple language so that all the people of Iran and all those who own these shares That is, 50 million people, about 15 million of whom are villagers, know that millions of them are retired; many are nomads; some of them are those who are supported by the relief committee.
From the servants of a mosque and husseiniyya to the different people in the society, the people who own a taxi and the taxi drivers to the seasonal workers of the building; all the people; There are millions.
These 50 million people need to know that there are two ways; if they want to sell their stocks and make money today, they can say that we want to sell our stocks; the mechanism is easy to figure out how to sell these stocks and when to sell them. Money should be deposited in their account.
Some people say that we don't need money now and we want it to be our stock and make a profit every year, and in the future we will sell it if necessary; these two issues have no more than two forms and we can easily solve this for the people and say Each of you wants to sell your shares, write I want to sell and someone who doesn't want to say I don't want to sell.
Those who do not want to sell to receive their annual profit are at their disposal, those who want to sell will be provided with an immediate mechanism for them to sell their shares on the stock exchange and this money will be given to them, now each share and The amount depends on the day it is sold on the stock exchange.
Let's face it, in these difficult times for the people, it's a difficult day. We've had two years of sanctions. We've had tough sanctions in a row, and it's been a matter of people's lives, some jobs, businesses, ten categories, eleven categories. This is a problem for them now. Now, as much as possible, a family may have two shares, a family may have three shares, a family may have one share. It can be a help today.
I would like to ask the Ministry of Economy and our Stock Exchange Council to address these 50 million people in a very clear and simple manner and to say that your loved ones are the owners of these shares, if you want to sell and you need money, now they will give me any order. An SMS Haleh. He can say I want to sell and it's over, and if he wants to keep it, he says I'm not willing to sell. It's over, yes or no, it's over and it's over. Then those who want to sell, we will explain the mechanism to them. There are different forms. Now I don't want to explain, let the friends themselves sit down and arrange for the people to explain and explain. Be.
Please, in the shortest possible time, now until the end of Ramadan, after Ramadan, 10 days after Ramadan, whatever happens, in a short time, because today some of our families need pressure, now you For example, two more years may not be needed, the situation may not be at all, we have overcome these economic pressures, God willing, the situation has become such that it does not need as much as it does today, but today we have a special need to help everyone do this.
And my last point is about the national currency. We had a beautiful story in our country, a strange story, we had a national currency on writing and writing for a long time, and we had a national currency in speech and language. He said 7 tomans per kilo, when we went to the bank we said I want money, he said 7,000 riyals, do you want 70,000 riyals? Then he thought he was saying 70,000 Rials, which means 7,000 Tomans? A bank asks him again if you want 7,000 tomans, he brings it on paper twice, and in the end they were wrong, and he and he were wrong. Many of the bank account errors are due to this rial. Both the people are wrong and the bank employee is wrong.
Officials themselves, we want to tell people how much this project was spent, for example, when we read on paper it says, for example, 700 billion riyals, then we see what 700 billion riyals means. We say that people mean 70 billion tomans. What kind of account and book is this? What is this national currency? That a commentator should always be by his side is a summary that the interpreter always wants. We had a national currency that we never saw in practice. Our national currency is the rial, where was the rial? When we were children, a coin was one rial, which is not the case now. It is not Rial, our national currency is Rial and it is not present at all, it is not present in people's lives at all.
In order to free the minds of the people from a foolish calculation, a part of the people's time is wasted on this toman and rial. Some in the newspaper write whether it has inflationary effects? Are the effects on economic growth? I myself, who was in Egypt, gave this bill to the parliament, and I thank the parliament for approving this bill. I wanted people to be comfortable in life, to write and speak in the same way, not to count ten kinds in their minds, that people accept in practice. It is Toman, all the shops of the shops you go to, from that vendor to that big store, deal with Toman. As long as you want to write, an official place will be opened in Rials, which means that the government had separated itself from the people, people were talking in Tomans, the government was writing in Rials. Again, the government wanted to talk to Toman.
So we solved this socio-cultural problem. We have facilitated calculations in the minds of the people, in calculations in what is the general calculation of our banks or institutions. We also reduced the number to zero, zero, and zero. It didn't fit on paper at all. It was so zero, and you know that a lot of countries in the world did that. Some came, but some only reduced it to zero. Some changed the name of the national currency, for example, Central Asian countries, after independence from the former Soviet Union, all created a new currency for themselves. Some made a new currency, some took zero, for example, Turkey once took a few zeros. There were countries that took 12 zeros in one day, some took 6 to zero, some took 4 zeros. We are one of those people who want our national currency to be the currency that our nation has always said in the language, people had one toman, they had one Qur'an, or they talked with the Qur'an or they talked with the toman. We want it to be the same now. .
So I think it's a good thing; of course, in terms of international reputation, it's much better when we want to compare our national currency with the European currency, for example the euro, when we say that this euro is 170,000 rials, when we say that this euro is 17 tomans That is, we subtract four to zero of this 170,000 and it becomes 17 tomans; it is easy to say, it is more beautiful and beautiful, and it is easier to calculate and it is completely consistent with people's minds.
In terms of calculating with other currencies, what we have done is in our favor, and I think it is a happy and good thing that has been done in our country.
I don't think it's unlikely that it will have much of an impact on economic growth, inflation, and so on; the elimination of zeros is more about accounting and the beautification of the national currency against foreign currencies, and that people should not do extra calculations every day; And people's writing becomes one.
God willing, this will be blessed for the people and we will be able to benefit the most from Imam Mojtaba (AS), Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him), the nights of Ghadr and the Qur'an, which is more familiar with the Qur'an this month. Our Iran is more and more proud day by day.
And peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings
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