Param Gabbadi
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We are right before the Persian New Year, Nowruz, and Iranian people are suffering economically in an unprecedented manner. Inflation has been soaring. In the past seven months that this new government has taken office, the Iranian currency has lost its value over 50%.
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And so the soaring inflation and the plunging value of Iranian currency has made the Iranian lawmakers impeach the Iranian finance minister. However, probably both parties, they know that the buck does not stop with him. And that's what the Iranian president, reformist president, Massoud Pesachian, said in his speech in today's parliament in defense of his finance minister that Iran,
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such major decisions in Iran is made by the head of different branches, like the government and the judiciary and the parliament. So Iranian finance minister has not that much of a power in this economy. And that's what the Iranian critics have been saying all along, that major decisions in Iran are are made by the Iranian supreme leader.
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And Pesachkian said that, you know, I was in favor of negotiating with the West, and that's how he managed to get the 50% of the vote. But he said that the Iranian supreme leader said that he banned the negotiations with the United States after Donald Trump took office. He said that Iran is in a state of war, economic warfare with the United States.
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He said that those countries that have good relations with Iran, such as Qatar, such as Turkey, such as Iraq, They are not giving our money back, the money they owe us.
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And he said that since Donald Trump has taken office and he signed that memorandum to exert a maximum pressure campaign again on Iran, Iranian tankers around the globe are in the seas and they are not able to sell their oil or their gas. And what Donald Trump has promised is to make Iranians not be able to sell even a gallon of oil.