President Hassan Rouhani says the Iranian people should have confidence in the bright future awaiting the country’s economy as the failure of the US economic war will open up a new chapter in trade ties.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has drawn a parallel between the hostile policies of outgoing US President Donald Trump and Iraq's Saddam Hussein for waging wars on the Islamic Republic, saying the American leader will eventually not fare much better than the former Iraqi dictator.

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran hopes that the incoming US administration will condemn the wrong policies and terrorist measures adopted by President Donald Trump against the Islamic Republic and compensate for them.

Iran’s President Rouhani says regardless of who becomes the US president, the next US administration will have to submit to the Iranian nation.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the US launched an economic war on Iran after leaving the 2015 nuclear deal based on the same “miscalculations” made by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1980, when he invaded the Islamic Republic.