President Rouhani predicted that “the time of sanctions and pressure against the Iranian nation will come to an end one day, because the enemies and ill-wishers have understood that they cannot force us to surrender with maximum pressures… the enemies have waged a fully-fledged economic war against Iran, in which they have so far been unsuccessful”. He went on to assert that “our people understand well who has put pressure on them. I[f] we began the war, it would be correct to be under question about why we did it, but we have lived up to our commitments”.