No obstacle can impede Iran’s progress: Supreme Leader

TEHRAN,July 31(MNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that no obstacle can hinder Iran’s progress. The Leader made the remarks in Tehran on Sunday during a meeting with a number of researchers, experts, academics, and directors of knowledge-based companies and science parks. “The country is progressing, and there is no obstacle or insurmountable problem in the way of the progressive movement of the Iranian nation,” Ayatollah Khamenei stated. He also pointed to political and economic pressure on the country and said that the Iranian nation is determined to reach the desired point, and problems and pressure will not negatively affect the will of the people. Elsewhere in his remarks, the Leader described as “self-deception” the production of wealth through selling non-renewable resources, such as oil. “Selling crude oil is a trap that is the legacy left from long years before the revolution, which has unfortunately afflicted the country,” he said, adding “Efforts should be made to free the Iranian nation from this trap.” He went on to say that the creation of a “resistance economy” is the best way to deal with the economic pressure being exerted on the country. “One of the ways to get through the current critical and decisive period is to take the resistance economy seriously,” he noted. “One of the best examples and the most effective constituents of the resistance economy is knowledge-based companies, which are able to consolidate the resistance economy,” he added. Ayatollah Khamenei had previously said, “Involving the people in economic activities through the implementation of the general policies of Article 44 (of the Constitution), empowering the private sector, reducing dependence on oil, managing consumption, using time, sources, and facilities as efficiently as possible, acting according to a plan, and refraining from making sudden changes to laws and policies are principles of a resistance economy.”