Iran's religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered officials to urgently find solutions to overcome a crisis spurred by the reimposition of U.S. economic sanctions, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday.
"There is no crisis and no problems in the country that we cannot resolve... Officials should find solutions to overcome the existing economic hardship and to disappoint the enemy by resolving it," Fars quoted Khamenei as telling officials on Wednesday night.
"With unity we can overcome all crises."
An Iranian diplomat suspected of helping to plan a bomb attack against Iranians living in exile in France has been extradited to Belgium, German authorities announced Wednesday.Assadollah Assadi was arrested in the southern German state of Bavaria on July 1 after a Belgian court issued a European arrest warrant for him.German prosecutors stressed that Assadi cannot benefit from diplomatic immunity in the country as he was accredited in neighboring Austria and came for a holiday to Germany.Assadi is accused of providing explosives to a couple living in Belgium in order to carry out a bomb attack during a rally on June 30 in neighboring France of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an umbrella bloc of Iranian opposition groups in exile.Belgian police stopped the couple in their car allegedly before they could carry out the attack.Iran has dismissed the accusation and claims it is part of a plot to undermine ties between European capitals and Tehran.
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Khamenei also said Iran could resist the pressure of U.S. sanctions by relying on its own natural and human resources.
In May, President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of a 2015 international deal that aimed to curb Iran's nuclear programme and he reimposed sanctions on Tehran in August.
Trump plans to impose harsher sanctions in November on Iran's oil and banking sectors.
Iran's rial currency has lost 70 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar since April.