The Iranian president told a recent ceremony marking World Tourism Day in Tehran that the Iranian government is credited with "breaking up the Iranophobia plot,"
“Iran’s image today is different from what it used to be a few years ago,” the president stressed.
President noted that Iran’s nuclear agreement has lightened up the mood for travel to the country.
He went onto say that Iran proved to the world that the phobia about its peaceful technologies and defense power is baseless.
The president also pointed out that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s inspectors had finally declared Iran's activities as peaceful.
"They finally said that the case of possible military dimensions has been closed and that they would now look at Iran's future nuclear program and not the past. This marked an end to an important aspect of Iranophobia in the world."
Elsewhere in his remarks, Rouhani also said Iran must use its tourism attractions to achieve those goals. He described tourism as "one of the launchpads" of development, progress and growth,
"One of our important goals is the issue of employment, technology and investment. Through the tourism industry which apparently is an easy but in fact a complicated field, we should achieve these objectives."
"Iran is one of the top 10, or according to some people, five countries in the world in terms of natural, climatic, historical and cultural attractions," Rouhani said, adding, "The cultural heritage of this land is one of the most important attractions in its ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity and tradition which can become an important tourism target," he added.
The president also touched on the ongoing Iran's Defense Week which marks the Iraqi invasion of the Islamic Republic under the former dictator Saddam in 1980.
hailing the sacrifices of "the great Iranian nation, Rouhani said, "Like the beloved youths who managed then to defend Iran's territorial integrity, national sovereignty and independence, our nation and its youths today have the same preparedness to defend the country and its revolutionary achievements."
It is notable that Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic through his speeches and messages denounced those elements and colonial powers which desperately had been attempting to fuel Islamophobia or Iranophobia.