Ahmadinejad: Enemy to reach dead end

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the enemies’ attempts to isolate the Islamic Republic of Iran are bound to reach dead end.

Using sanctions, the enemy was harboring the idea that we could find ourselves in need of them, he said on Saturday, adding that “they were moving in an unreal and fabricated atmosphere, whose result is not and will not be anything but dead end.”

They have no choice but to acknowledge the Islamic Republic’s reality and existence, Ahmadinejad said, his official website reported.

“All the country’s problems have been surmounted through the people’s efforts,” he said.

The president said the US-engineered UN Security Council sanctions as well as unilateral ones by Washington and its allies were rendered ineffective by the people’s efforts and the country’s implementation of an economic reform plan.

The recently-implemented plan eliminates subsidies from some products, making cash handouts available for low-income families.

“Despite the imposition of sanctions on gasoline, in addition to exports, by the end of this year, 12 million liters [of gasoline] would be added to the output of this product inside the country and, with the implementation of the targeted subsidies plan, we would also have some billions of liters in spare.”

“They were ready to give us whatever we needed. [They] even offered installment plans in exchange for us accepting their terms. But the Iranian nation never accepted this issue.”