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After criticism, Rouhani defends his economic performance

After receiving criticism for not yet having implemented the resistance economy, President Hassan Rouhani answered back that his administration has already fulfilled many economic promises.
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President Hassan Rouhani defended his administration’s economic performance just days after Iran’s supreme leader called for greater emphasis on a resistance economy.

At a meeting of the High Council and Managing Directors of the Free Trade Zones, Rouhani said, “One of the important parts and an emphasis of the policies of economic resistance is, constructive engagement with the world and the path of our administration … has been economic resistance.”

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