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Supreme Leader Highlights Importance of Resistance Economy

9:34 - June 24, 2015
News ID: 3318042
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution underlined the importance of Resistance Economy, describing it as Taqwa (God-fearing) in the society’s economic field.

Speaking in a meeting with the heads of the three branches of power and the country’ senior officials in Tehran on Tuesday, on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei elaborated on the two kinds of Taqwa, namely personal and social, saying that the resistance economy is the society’s Taqwa in economic issues.

 

The Leader said that Resistance Economy is the opposite of what the world powers have imposed on the third world countries, adding that the resistance economy is a progressive model based on domestic capacities and potentials.

 

Back in February 2014, Ayatollah Khamenei outlined the general policies of the resistance economy and called on the three branches of the Iranian government to implement the policies.

 

As part of the program, the government must take action to promote knowledge-based economy and domestic production, especially in strategic products and services, with the subsequent reduction of dependence on imports.

 

The decree also encourages greater privatization and increased exports of goods and services through legal and administrative reform as well as attraction of foreign investment for export purposes.

 

Elsewhere in his statements on Tuesday, the Leader pointed to the talks between Iran and world powers on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program, saying that Iran seeks to reach a fair deal that will serve the country’s national interests.

 

“All Iranian authorities, while insisting on [the country’s] red lines, are pursuing a good deal [with the P5+1], which is a fair and honorable agreement in line with Iran’s interests,” the Leader said.

 

A study of the Americans’ demands shows that they intend to turn Iran’s nuclear industry into a “caricature” after dismantling it and abolishing the country’s nuclear identity, the Leader added.

 

Ayatollah Khamenei stated that the Americans are also making efforts to deprive the Iranian nation of the great advantages of the nuclear industry while maintaining pressure and sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

 

The Leader said Iran has always made rational demands since the beginning of the talks with the P5+1 countries and emphasized that all “cruel sanctions” on Tehran over its nuclear program must be lifted.

 

Ayatollah Khamenei commended the Iranian nuclear negotiating team for its faithfulness and bravery in the talks with the six world powers, and said the negotiators are meticulously making efforts in order to settle issues.

 

The Iranian negotiators have managed to bravely announce Iran’s stance on the nuclear issue, the Leader said, adding that they may possibly make some mistakes but they are “brave and faithful”.

 

He pointed to all nuclear powers’ refusal to sell 20 percent enriched fuel to Iran for the production of nuclear medicine at the Tehran Research Reactor and said young Iranian scientists have succeeded in producing the fuel and confounding the opposite side.

 

Ayatollah Khamenei further went on to once again reaffirm the Islamic Republic’s red lines in its nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 countries.

 

“Despite the Americans’ insistence, we do not accept long-term restrictions [on nuclear activities] for 10 or 12 years. We have told them what number of years we accept for restrictions,” the Leader said.

 

Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that proceeding with research and development in the field of nuclear technology even during the time of restrictions is another red line for the Islamic Republic.

 

The Leader further emphasized that all economic, monetary and banking sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council and the United States against Iran must be immediately lifted on the day of signing a possible final nuclear deal while other bans must be terminated on a rational time schedule.

 

“The lifting of sanctions must not be contingent on the implementation of Iran’s undertakings. They should not say that you (Iran) should fulfill your commitments and the [International Atomic Energy] Agency (IAEA) should then verify it in order for the sanctions to be lifted. We do not accept this issue at all,” Ayatollah Khamenei stated.


The Leader said Iran opposes the P5+1 group’s fulfillment of its commitments after the IAEA’s report “because the agency has repeatedly proved that it is not an independent and fair body and so we are pessimistic about it.”

 

The Leader further expressed Iran’s firm opposition to “unconventional inspections, questioning Iranian figures, and the inspection of military sites” as other red lines for the country.

 

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