Economy

Arrogant Powers Seeking to Stir Economic Disappointment in Iran

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani underlined the necessity for stronger economic efforts by the Iranian nation and officials, and cautioned that hegemonic states are attempting to create an atmosphere of economic disappointment in Iran.

“All MPs and officials have recently focused their attention on what has been noticed and found in the arrogant powers’ behavior,” Larijani said at an open session of the parliament, and explained that the country’s officials have realized through the monitoring of the enemies’ moves that they are trying “to bring Iranian economy into recession and disappointment”.

He said that the arrogant powers are seeking to find some issues in Iran like increasingly expensive prices to portray them as the outcome of their bullying policies and declare to the world that they have been successful against Iran.

The speaker called on the Iranian officials to make jihad-like moves in the field of economy to supply people’s needs.

Earlier this month, Iranian Economy Minister Seyed Shamseddin Hosseini said that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has doubled during the last five years, saying that the powerful growth proves Tehran’s ability to successfully defuse the western sanctions.

Hosseini cited the statistical figures released by the International Monitory Fund (IMF) on the growth of Iran’s GDP from $241bln to $482bln during the last five years, and said based on the figures Iran is now the 17th world economy.

He added that despite all animosities, Iran has managed to increase foreign investment from $1.6bln to $4.3bln and non-oil exports from $15.3bln to $43bln.

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West’s calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed the West’s demand as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians’ national resolve to continue the path.

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