Tehran's Interim Friday Prayers Leader, Hojjat al-Islam Kazem Seddighi, dismissed the anti-Iran unilateral sanctions as attempts doomed to failure and said such acts are aimed at creating tension and a gap between the people and government.

According to IRIB World Service, addressing the worshipers, he lambasted today the illogical sanctions imposed against the country and said that the sanctions are being imposed under the pretext of nuclear issue, this is while the main objective followed by the enemies is to dishearten the people toward the Islamic system.

Hojjat al-Islam Seddighi said the sanctions also are aimed at challenging the upcoming presidential elections. However, he noted, the people –as usual- will create another epic at the ballot boxes and foil the plots.

Tehran's Interim Friday Prayers Leader shed light on the tremendous progress in different fields of science and technology despite pressures and sanctions and said launching into orbit of different satellites, building of highly-advanced plane are among indicatives of the fact that Iranian nation will not surrender to sanctions.

He then praised efforts made by military and police forces to maintain security along the borders, hoping that presidential elections would be held in a clam atmosphere.

Elsewhere, in his today’s sermons, Hojjat al-Islam Kazem Seddighi took note of exemplary resistance of the Gazans in the 8-day confrontation against the Zionist aggressors in 2012 and said that this victory was achieved party by supports of the people and government of Iran, once again putting on display Iran’s clout in the regional and international sphere.

He considered the Islamic System in Iran as the only theocratic popular democracy in the region and the world and corroborated it with an example of referendum held at the first year after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in the country, aimed at choosing the ruling system by the people.