The US is exerting "in vain" economic pressure on the Iranian nation to divide and turn them against the establishment, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, Economic Times reported.
"The enemy's plan is to create division between the establishment and the people," Khamenei said.
"Washington's plan reflects their stupidity because they do not know that the Islamic republic is nothing but the Iranian nation and these two cannot be separated," he made the remarks at a ceremony at Imam Hussein University in the capital Tehran.
The US is not able to press Iran alone, so it has made coalitions with "disgraceful and reactionary states" in the region, he said.
"We will increase our bond with the people day by day," he said, stressing that "the hatred of the Iranian nation for the United States has been increasing day by day."
