Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that the country will see the US “defeated in a full-scale economic war”, referring to a recently launched economic pressure campaign by Washington, news agency ISNA reports.

“Today, in different and fateful circumstances, the government must, in addition to preserving the essence of the Islamic Revolution, prioritise people’s livelihoods, purchasing power, youth employment, and economic security, and lift the burden from the people,” he says in a message released on the occasion of Government Week.

“The country is in a full-scale economic war, and by God’s grace, we will see that the government and the executive branch, relying on the power of the people, economic activists in the private sector, and all elements of the system, will defeat the enemy in this field as well, and the enemy’s back will be rubbed in the dirt, and God willing, we will soon witness the discrediting of the enemy’s psychological operations in this field,” he adds.