Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili[/caption]Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili has underscored the importance of drawing on all the potentials of the country for the achievement of prosperity.
It should be one of the duties of the president to organize the countrys entire executive-administrative structure in such a way that the potentials of the people, the potentials of every person, flourishes within that framework, Jalili said at a campaign speech in the city of Qazvin on Saturday night.
It should be our governmental bodies that reach out to our people. It should be them who plan to make the best use of every potential in agriculture, [and] industry and in scientific and cultural fields and help it make headway, he added.
The art of the administration and the executive branch should be to add up the potentials of our human resources and material potentials, including the capacities in our natural resources, agriculture and industry, and plan to achieve prosperity through that. And this is possible, Jalili pointed out.
The presidential candidate, who is Irans top negotiator in the countrys comprehensive talks with the P5+1 group of world powers in his capacity as the secretary of Supreme National Security Council, pointed to the Wests pressures against Iran over its nuclear energy program.
Ironically, over the past 34 years [since Irans 1979 Islamic Revolution], wherever our enemies exerted pressure, we made progress. The enemy does not roll out a red carpet for us. Nevertheless, whenever it focused on an issue, that very same issue turned into an opportunity for us, the SNSC secretary said.
The United States, the Israeli regime and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program, with Tel Aviv repeatedly threatening to attack the Islamic Republics nuclear facilities.
Over the false allegation, Washington and the European Union have also imposed a series of illegal unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Jalili highlighted the importance of the peoples participation in running the countrys affairs, noting, The discourse of pure Islam cannot be advanced without the presence of the people and the masses, as they have shown over the past 34 years.
Today, the world is waiting for a model, a model of both resistance and progress. Without such a model, we cannot achieve the Islamic civilization and the ideals that we have in mind, the presidential candidate added.
Jalili is competing against seven other candidates in the upcoming presidential race. His rivals are former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, lawmaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Secretary of the Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei, Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, President of the Center for Strategic Research of the Expediency Council Hassan Rohani, former First Vice-President Mohammad-Reza Aref, and former Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Gharazi.
Iranians will go to the polls in the countrys 11th presidential election on June 14.
According to Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, 50.5 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the election.
By Press TV
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