Hassan Rohani has threatened to extend Iran's ballistic missile program: "We have not asked nor will we ask permission"

Iranian President Hbadan Rouhani said Monday that his country was "Striving to expand its military power and ballistic missile program" despite growing international pressure to stop it, during a speech celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

"We have not asked and we will not ask for permission to develop different types of missiles and we will continue on our way and our military power," Rouhani reported on Azadi Square in Tehran, where tens of thousands of people had gathered to celebrate the fall of Shah of Persia in 1979 and the establishment of the Ayatollah theocratic regime, reported the report. ;agency. Reuters.

Rouhani also promised "defeat" the sanctions that the US has imposed again in 2018 after its president, Donald Trump, ordered the country's withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran in 2015.

"The Iranian people have and will have economic difficulties, but we will overcome them by helping one another"says the Persian president.

Washington's economic sanctions They mainly target Iran's foreign trade, forbidding Tehran to use the dollar and banning US companies from trading with Persian entities, as well as companies from other countries.

The purpose of these measures, according to the White House, is to force the theocratic regime to negotiate a limitation of its ballistic missile program, some of whom would be able to carry nuclear warheads, as well as ending Tehran's support to terrorist groups and militias abroad, such as in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.

France, the United Kingdom, Germany, China and Russia, also signatories of the 2015 nuclear agreement that lifted economic sanctions in exchange for real controls over Iran's nuclear program, They tried to keep the pact alive despite the departure of the United States.

On the contrary, the regime reacted by increasing the frequency of testing of these projectiles and announcing new developments in ballistic missiles and cruise missilesin the short and medium term.

"The presence of the people in the streets of the entire Islamic Republic of Iran means that the enemy will never reach its evil goals", Rouhani also said Monday after denouncing a "conspiracy" of the United States, "Zionists" and "reactionary" states of the Middle East against Iran.