President Rouhani told his cabinet that “the enemies who are claiming to have animosity toward the system [i.e. Iranian government] are actually the enemies of the Iranian people, imposing sanctions on people’s everyday lives”. Rouhani further insisted that “the yardstick is not what they say, but rather what they do. Whenever they stop hostility towards the Iranian nation, lift their unjust sanctions, live up to their commitments and come back to the negotiation table that the[y] left, the door is open”.