The President stated, "What brings the two countries Iran and China together is the history of civilisation, common positions in opposition to unilateralism, independence and negation of domination and subjugation".
Speaking before noon on Wednesday local time, Ayatollah Dr Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi had a meeting with the top thinkers and intellectuals of China, and emphasised the importance of the role of research and research centres in examining the current state of the world and its pathology, as well as providing a future-oriented solution to improve the political, economic, cultural, and social state of societies".
The President stated, "Today, the situation in the world is developing in such a way that by denying unilateralism, actions such as those used by America and its allies in the region and the world to dominate the nations are rejected and condemned in the public opinion of the world".
Dr Raisi named cultural and economic domination as one of the new methods of the domination system to dominate the nations and added, "Today, researchers and thinkers in independent countries are expected to act as a sharp observer of the culture and civilisational identities of their country to protect them from invasions of the domination system".
The President stated, "What brings the two countries Iran and China together is the history of civilisation, common positions in opposition to unilateralism, independence and negation of domination and subjugation".
He stated, "Iran has huge economic, cultural and geographical capacities, the actualisation of which can be very effective in the growth and promotion of countries in the region and even the continent of Asia and shape the future in the name of Asia".
Ayatollah Raisi stated that the connection of independent countries with each other brings two important achievements of capacity exchange and neutralisation of threats and sanctions, and added, "The Iranian nation has created many opportunities for itself from oppressive threats and sanctions and has achieved many successes in its progress".
Dr Raisi added, "For example, today more than 90% of the medicinal needed by the people of Iran are produced inside the country by Iranian researchers and experts".
The President said that the only way to deal with the threat of America and its allies is to stand and resist and added, "In addition to warding off the danger, resistance will turn the threat into an opportunity for progress, while backing off in face of the threat will only result in failure".
In another part of this meeting, Dr Raisi responded to the question of one of the attendees about the increase of American pressure against the Iranian nation during Trump's presidency, stating, "Domineering behaviour in America is not only specific to one person or a political movement in this country, but in the essence of America's policies as we have witnessed its implementation by the democratic and republican rulers of America in different parts of the world in the past years".
In response to another question about the plans of the Islamic Republic of Iran to develop relations with China, the President said, "We have long-standing relations with China, which are developing in many areas, including in the energy export sector, exchange of products, greater interaction between researchers and student exchange in the universities of the two countries and the implementation of the Belt-Road Initiative to further develop relations".
Dr Raisi further said, "The principle of economic development is a good thing, but considering the valuable historical and civilisational background of Iran and China, economic development should not destroy the cultural foundations of the two nations".
Ayatollah Raisi stated that the domination system has resorted to actions such as Iranphobia and Sinophobia, and emphasised, "But it is certain that the future of the world will not witness unilateralism, and multilateralism will spread in the world".
Dr Raisi invited Chinese thinkers, intellectuals and students to travel to Iran and observe the great progress of the Iranian nation.