Iran President Hassan Rouhani rejected talks with the US and called for the government to be given more power to run the economy in an 'economic war'.
Dubai - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected any talks with the United States and called on Tuesday for the government to be given more power to run the sanctions-hit economy in an "economic war".
Washington says it aims to push Tehran into fresh negotiations on a broader arms control deal. Iran has repeatedly rejected any further negotiations as long as the United States remains outside the nuclear pact. Rouhani compared the situation to Iran's war in the 1980s against Iraq, when hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and said the government needed similar powers to those it was given at the time to manage the economy."In no earlier period have we faced today's problems in banking and oil sales, so we need everyone to concentrate and feel the conditions of economic war," Rouhani was quoted as saying by IRNA state news agency.
Rouhani won two landslide elections in Iran on promises to ease its international isolation. But Trump's decision to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal has helped ensure that Iranians have felt little or no economic benefit from Rouhani's policies. Washington's European allies say they share US concerns about Iran's behaviour, but disagree with Trump's decision to pull out of the nuclear deal, a move they say undermines Rouhani's pragmatic faction and boosts Iran's hardliners.
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