Iran will march ahead despite West sanctions

IRAN: Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi says the Islamic Republic will soldier on in defiance of "the toughest and most unprecedented" Western sanctions against it.

The United States and the European Union have recently expanded and intensified their sanctions on the Islamic Republic to include the oil and banking sectors.

The oppressive powers are ignorant of the important fact that the driving engine of the Islamic Republic has been ignited with the blood of its martyrs and is now running."

He stressed that the Iranian nation will emerge victorious in the wake of the sanctions as the bans will hit the West harder than they will the Islamic Republic.

"These days Westerners have been creating hype about the sanctions against Iran but they do not understand that they themselves have vaccinated the Iranian nation against any sanctions with the bans imposed in the past 30 years," Ayatollah Khamenei said. PRESS TV