Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has accused the US of trying to use economic and media pressure to create divisions within Iran and push it to “surrender”, a tactic he says will fail, according to Al Jazeera.

“The enemy is very hopeful about economic pressure, and it is clear that they have once again received false reports, and based on these reports, they have made wrong decisions,” Ghalibaf has said in comments carried by Iran’s Fars news agency. “This wrong decision will cause everyone to suffer.”

He says that no matter the extent of the economic pressure, “the Iranian nation will endure … for the sake of the independence.”