Rouhani and his cabinet paid tribute to the late Imam Khomeini (RA) by putting flowers in his shrine on Tuesday and to renew their allegiance to his Revolutionary heritage and ideals. In a brief address during the ceremony, Rouhani mainly focused on prospects of economic growth amid the difficulties still restricting the country’s capabilities and resources even after implementation of JCPOA; however, Mr. Rouhani’s figures and statistics instills hope to the inquisitive public keen to see any post-sanctions improvements in their living conditions. “A single-digit inflation rate in the second quarter of 2016 and a growth of 4.4 per cent are a feat achieved by the cabinet despite all the difficulties and recession in industry sector; after so many years, now our non-oil exports surpassed our imports by $3.3bn, which indicates that we have been in a right track of growth,” Rouhani told the ceremony.
“We are now in a position for the first time in our history, to sell the international community our enriched nuclear material and heavy water and to buy yellow cake; we are now in a place to go beyond UN resolutions and to create cracks in the wall of sanctions, and are prepared more than ever to economic boom,’ Rouhani rejoiced to say, “Resistance Economy policies and creating jobs provides the government with priorities; our mission at the current situation is give hopes to the nation through progress in all fields we promised during presidential campaign of 2013, and in this way, we hope to have cooperation of all authorities and bodies of the Establishment.”
Rouhani’s brief sideswipe in the closing sentence touched circles whom he believed were dispiriting the nation; “they would not serve the nation, but they would help the enemies of this land through their antics to deprive the nation of the hope for the better future.”
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