Iran Economy Can’t Grow While Nation Isolated, Rouhani Says - Bloomberg

Iran Economy Can’t Grow While Nation Isolated, Rouhani Says - Bloomberg:



"Iran “cannot have sustainable growth in isolation,” President Hassan Rouhani, whose government seeks to have international sanctions against the nation lifted, said in the Iranian capital today.



“Gone are the days when it was said if foreign investors come to Iran its independence will suffer,” Rouhani said in an address opening a Tehran conference on sustainable growth and job creation, local media reported. Opening up “doesn’t mean letting go of the nation’s ideals and principles,” he said, according to the state-run Fars news agency.



Rouhani took office after eight years of rule by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during which United Nations, European Union and U.S. sanctions over the country’s nuclear program drove it deeper into political and economic isolation. Ahmadinejad said the technological and financial restrictions would help Iran become more self-sufficient."



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