TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that Congress’s decision to renew US sanctions for 10 years would elicit a “harsh reaction” and proved the United States was still an enemy. “America… is our enemy, we have no doubt about this. The Americans want to put as much pressure on us as they can,” Rouhani said in a speech to students at Tehran University. The Iran Sanctions Act passed the US Senate 99-0 last week, after easily clearing the House of Representatives in November. President Barack Obama is expected to sign the measure into a law, a White House official said, adding that the administration does not believe the extension violates last year’s nuclear deal between major powers and Iran. Obama has suspended sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear programme since the agreement went into effect at the start of the year. But Iran says that even if the nuclear sanctions remain suspended, just keeping them on the books amounts to a breach of the agreement. “If this is implemented… it would be a blatant and clear breach of the JCPOA (nuclear agreement) and would face a very harsh reaction from us,” Rouhani said. The actual language in the agreement could