Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday called for unity among Iran’s political factions to overcome conditions which, he said, may be harder than those during the 1980s war with Iraq, Reuters reported.
“Today, it cannot be said whether conditions are better or worse than the (1980-88) war period, but during the war we did not have a problem with our banks, oil sales or imports and exports, and there were only sanctions on arms purchases,” Rouhani said, according to the state news agency IRNA.
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