President Rouhani declared that "what the U.S. is doing today is not war and sanction, but crime against humanity because they are stopping our medicine and foodstuff purchases and preventing patients' travel... today, the U.S. is not against a government, but 82 million Iranians". In separate remarks, Rouhani insisted that while "pressures may make the situation tough for us... the Iranian nation will not yield to bullies".