Bloomberg | Ladane Nasseri:�Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his government needs more powers to push back against the �economic war� the U.S. is waging, while vowing his nation will stand fast against the Trump administration�s campaign rather than submit to its demands.

During Iran�s war with Iraq in the 1980s, a wartime supreme council was set up and �held all powers, and even the parliament and the judiciary did not intervene,� Rouhani told a gathering of clerics, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency.




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