Iran will not sacrifice future for sanctions

Tehran, Aug 9, IRNA – Iran will not sacrifice its future for sanctions although it is not also happy with the issuance of new sanctions, government’s economic spokesman Shamsoddin Hosseini said Monday.

Hosseini, also Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet, told reporters that Iranians would pass through the new phase of sanctions relying on their faith and skills.

“With the help of necessary measures, wisdom, courage and management of the Iranian nation, producers and businessmen, we will pass this stage too,” said the spokesman.

He stressed that Iran could not quit the course it has started towards progress and as the country should be accountable for the generations to come.

“Now that we are capable of obtaining superior technologies, this would by no means be acceptable to deprive ourselves of achieving them for the sake of sanctions,” Hosseini stressed.

He added that imposing new sanctions against Iran by the US and the European Union indicated their dominance over international bodies.

Hosseini said that the sanctions would become useless with the passage of time as they were not supported by all world communities./end