Enemy’s plot to cause famine, disrupt goods supply in Iran foiled: Rouhani

IRNA
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the 204th meeting of the government’s Economic Coordination Headquarters in Tehran on February 16, 2021.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his administration’s policies have thwarted the hostile plans to cause food shortages and disrupt the supply of basic goods in the country under the so-called “maximum pressure” campaign.

In an address to a meeting of the government’s Economic Coordination Headquarters in Tehran on Tuesday, he said Iran has achieved great success in thwarting the enemy’s main evil purpose of creating famine, imposing unbearable pressures and causing disruption in the supply of basic goods in Iran, Tasnim News Agency reported.

“The enemy’s plot ended in total failure,” he noted.

The president also affirmed his administration’s resolve to protect the livelihoods of people in the next Iranian calendar year (which will start on March 21, 2021) and ensure a steady supply of commodities through distributing subsidized foreign currency resources.

Earlier, Rouhani said that next year’s national budget bill has focused on the livelihoods of people, adding that as in the past two years, the administration has cut off the budget’s dependence on oil revenues.