Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic, represented by tougher Western sanctions led will soon announce progress on its nuclear program.
He was speaking on the occasion of the 33 by the Islamic revolution that toppled US-backed shah. Tens of thousands of Iranians joined the demonstrations organized by the State for the occasion.
The protesters carried banners and pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America". Ismail Haniya, of Hamas, the Islamist movement's head in the Gaza strip Administration, also attended the ceremony.
Ahmadinejad did not say how the Iranian nuclear program work, which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes only, has increased.
The United States and Israel, a country that Iran does not recognize, did not rule out military action fail if sanctions.
Iran has warned against a "painful" response, saying it could hit Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf and the Gulf bloc of essential oil shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz.
"If by the Zionist regime (Israel), the attack to dust," a commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Shirdel, semi-official Fars news agency reported Saturday.
"Thousands of our rockets at Israel and 40 U.S. bases in the region will be sought," he said.
The nuclear conflict has fueled tensions in the Western strengthened sanctions. The European Union has agreed to ban the importation of oil from Iran in July and freezing the assets of the Central Bank of Iran.
Strengthening of the measures imposed by the United States, that the West tries to force Tehran to resume talks again before it produced enough nuclear material for a nuclear bomb.
Neither party has made a passionate commitment to the test. Iran says it will fight the EU sanctions and measures against, in Parliament, the legislation that oil exports to the EU ban.
The Iranian authorities to shake the effects of sanctions, while proclaiming that the Iranians do not support any difficulties to bear on his country's right to nuclear technology.
"I honestly feel that if (West) continues to be the language of force and threat to use, our nation will not bow to the pressure," said Ahmadinejad.
Impact of sanctions
Industry analysts say that the sanctions against Iran and its essential oil industry that the decline in oil production and exports imposed to accelerate.
Realignment of global flows of oil, despite EU ban on imports from Iran only has an effect in July, the International Energy Agency said in its monthly oil market Friday.
Two Asian giants, China and India want the head of the new sanctions against Iran. China's largest trading partner of Iran, is one of the six great powers in nuclear talks with Tehran involved.
Ahmadinejad, echoing the official position of Iran said, would welcome new nuclear talks may be. The last tower fell a year ago to stop by the refusal of Iran's uranium enrichment.
"They say they want to negotiate. That's fine with us, we were getting ready in the course of justice and respect for others to discuss," said Ahmadinejad. "The Iranian nation will not retreat one iota from their path."
Western nations say that talk is useless, unless the uranium enrichment is on the table, which Iran refuses to discuss.
The Iranian economy is dependent on oil to 60 percent. The country depends heavily on imported food, to buy 45 per cent rice bran and most of its animal feed abroad.
Trade sanctions, hooks could fuel already high inflation, which critics accuse Ahmadinejad of Iran economic policy. The official inflation rate exceeds 20 percent.
However, Ahmadinejad said that the economy is "booming", was reeling from numbers to support your claims. Critics have in the past accused the government of the falsification of economic statistics.
"We saved over 30 billion dollars for a rainy day," he said. "No oil exports from Iran to reach more than 43 million ... March imports from Iran in the last 10 months decreased by five percent."
Removed for reform of the government subsidies strong products such as food and fuel in 2010, said Ahmadinejad, the billions are not recorded by the importing gasoline.
"We are importers of fuel, but ... we are now a major exporter of petroleum products and fuel," he said.
