President Rouhani speaking in southern province of Bushehr in Assaluyeh during opening ceremony of 15th and 16th phases of South Pars project on Monday, said the two phases had been the most ‘Iranian’ phases of the huge project. “Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters of the IRGC has done a great job in completing these two important phases and showed a harmony and cooperation between the government and other players,” Mr. Rouhani told the ceremony, turning to sanctions which he believed created a special conditions for his cabinet; “despite all difficulties, the cabinet is resolved on its premises made during election campaign and within few weeks, we will see the sanctions belt unraveling,” president added.
“I will speak to the nation in the day of JCPOA implementation and when sanctions are removed about the great achievement; our neighbors as well as the world should know that our nation is a great nation, passing through all difficult bottlenecks and finding the terra firma out of the stormy seas,” Rouhani emphasized. “The annual budget for the upcoming year will be presented to the Parliament amid plummeting oil prices and while all OPEC members face the difficulties of budget deficits; however, the budget will rely on the oil incomes only partially about 25 per cent.”
“I promise the nation that the upcoming year will be a year of economic boom; hopefully we will safely navigate through drought; the year will be annus mirabilis for the nation as it will have held two glorious elections with high turnouts,” Rouhani asserted. “The government has been living to its promises in opening political space for the election, and I am sure that the Guardian Council will also behave in the same manner to contribute to this political openness.”
