29 May, 2017
Answering a question about defending people's rights, especially in the field of nuclear negotiations, the President said: "If we succeeded in the field of nuclear negotiations, it was because the whole Iranian nation were behind the Supreme Leader, building up a national integrity and unity, helping the administration to use people's power in global stages".
Rouhani beat his main challenger, conservative ex-prosecutor Ebrahim Raisi in the first round of the election, polling almost 57 percent of the vote and winning another four-year term as president. Millions of Iranians voted late into the night Friday. "Who can say the region will experience total stability without Iran?". "We are waiting for the new USA administration to find stability and continuity in its policies", Rouhani said.
He appeared to embrace a more reform-minded role during the campaign as he openly criticized hard-liners and Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary force involved in the war in Syria and the fight against the Islamic State group in neighboring Iraq.
Some Iranians visiting Armenia also went to cast their ballots at their country's embassy in Yerevan on Friday.
The launch of an Iranian Emad intermediate-range ballistic missile.
On the other hand, Rouhani said on Monday that regional stability in the Middle East would be impossible to achieve without Iran. What's more, at the time the Obama administration said they were able to get the Iranians to negotiate because the U.S. led an worldwide effort to impose crippling sanctions on the state's banking system and oil industry. The reelection of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran opens up a new opportunity for Armenia to implement its joint projects with the southern neighbor without delay, an expert in Iranian affairs, Vardan Voskanyan said today.
US President Donald Trump has deliberately accused Tehran of sponsoring extremist groups in the Middle East in order to stir up "Iranophobia" and boost American arms sales in the region, Iran's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. That would "make it even more complicated for Trump to try to renegotiate the nuclear deal", Nuseibeh said.
At present, for Iran's practical changes and, I think, changes it ought to make in its engagement with the world-is shaped by geopolitics, but introduces a modicum of collective global peace and security. The creation of Syunik free economic zone must be also made as soon as possible.
From his campaigns and his presidential speeches, national interests and constructive interaction are going to shape Iran's future.
"Our missiles are for peace and for defense..."
His comments were echoed by Saudi King Salman, who declared: "The Iranian regime has been the spearhead of global terrorism".
Trump arrived on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, his first stop on the first trip overseas of his presidency.
