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Tehran (Iran), March 17 (EFE), (Camera: Artemis Razmipour).- Iran's president Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the "conditions" for the United States to eliminate the sanctions against his country are in place and that he expects "action "by the White House, as well as the US return to the 2015 nuclear deal. SOUNDBITES OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT HASSAN ROUHANI: "Today, more than ever, the conditions are in place for the sanctions to be eliminated. Americans have explicitly declared, and not once but several times, that the path of the previous administration was wrong and that the maximum pressure failed. They have repeated it several times and have expressed that they want to return to the path of compromise, to the path of the JCPOA. Of course, words are not enough for us, it is clear that we expect action.""In these three years, during the imposed economic war, our nation was alone but it resisted due to its capacity."
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