Nahavandian made the remark as a pre-sermon lecturer in Tehran's Friday prayers congregation.

He said, "Thanks to efforts of servants of Iranian nation in the Ministry of Petroleum and one million barrel increase in the oil production, we speedily returned back to the oil market."

He said, "Enemies get unhappy with the words because in the past three decades, they could not do anything through Iranphobia and inside too, they failed to clear the ranks of Iranian nation."

He went on to say that despite oil price decline, Iran's economic growth rate was more than four percent.