{"id":188241,"date":"2019-05-12T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T10:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188241"},"modified":"2019-05-15T05:55:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T05:55:11","slug":"irans-rouhani-warns-of-greater-hardship-than-war-years-of-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188241","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Rouhani warns of greater hardship than war years of 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters \u2013 May 12, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Demonstrators punch a man in a Donald Trump mask at an anti-US rally in Tehran. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Iran\u2019s president, Hassan Rouhani<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, has called for unity among political factions to overcome conditions that he said may be harder than those during the 1980s war with Iraq, state media reported, as the country faces tightening US sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Trump on Thursday urged Iran\u2019s leaders to talk with him<\/strong><\/span><\/a> about giving up their nuclear programme and said he could not rule out a military confrontation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The president increased economic and military pressure on Iran<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, moving to cut off all Iranian oil exports while beefing up the US navy and air force presence in the Gulf.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington also approved a new deployment of Patriot missiles to the Middle East, a US official said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cToday, it cannot be said whether conditions are better or worse than the (1980-88) war period,\u201d Rouhani said, according to the state news agency IRNA. \u201cBut during the war we did not have a problem with our banks, oil sales or imports and exports, and there were only sanctions on arms purchases.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe pressures by enemies is a war unprecedented in the history of our Islamic revolution … but I do not despair and have great hope for the future and believe that we can move past these difficult conditions provided that we are united,\u201d Rouhani told activists from various factions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hardliners have criticised Rouhani after Trump withdrew from Iran\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which Rouhani supported, and reimposed sanctions last year. The Iranian president has also been abandoned by some of his moderate allies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Separately, a media courtsuspended the weekly Seda (Voice), the semi-official news agency ISNA reported, after the reformist magazine published articles warning about the possibility of war with the US.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Crossroads of War and Peace, have moderates lost or will they again save Iran from war?\u201d the main headline on the front page read against a photograph of US navy warships.<\/span><\/p>\n

On social media, hardliners attacked the magazine as \u201cTrump\u2019s voice\u201d, suggesting its warning about the danger of war amounted to a call for talks with the US, Iran\u2019s arch enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the height of America\u2019s political, economic and media war against the Iranian nation, an Iranian publication supplements the enemy\u2019s media operations inside the country,\u201d the hardline-led news agency Fars wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has dismissed the US military build up as \u201cpsychological warfare\u201d designed to intimidate it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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