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The Iranian parliament dominated by the hard line was abolished and fired by the Minister of Economics and Finance Abdolniser Hemmati, providing a significant failure to the Reformist Government of the President Masoud Pezeshkiana.
The move emphasizes the tension of how to wear IranThe crisis, which Pezeshkian says she was guided by American sanctions and became a “comprehensive war” over economics.
MPs who voted for removing the hemmatia blamed him for the worsening of economic conditions since he had assumed his position last August. They pointed to a 60 -long depreciation of national currency, Rial, compared to the US dollar in the open market during their term, along with high prices for essential goods, including food and medication.
Of the 273 legislators present for the Sunday session, 182 voted for the Imperial, 89 opposed, one was restrained, and one voice was declared invalid.
Defending his minister, Pezeshkian called Parliament not to reject the key member of his government, claiming that Iran had faced a crisis even stronger than the 1980s Iran-Iraq.
“We are in all the war with the enemy [the US]. The war with Iraq was nothing [in comparison]”, Pezeshkian told the legislators.” The enemy wants us to show the division. How can we bring major economic changes in just six months? “
The Impeachment comes in the midst of a renovated “Max Pressure” campaign, Donald Trump, which processed festive sanctions to Iran for its nuclear program, similar to the measures introduced in 2018 during its first term.
Pezeshkian admitted that Iran is already trying to sell oil for the latest sanctions, and oil tankers are “fighting for shipments”.
Selected last July on a platform that promises to seek relief of sanctions, Pezeshkian suggested that economic recovery depends on negotiations with Washington.
While Pezeshkian -Older Diplomats signaled a willingness to discuss the country’s nuclear program, hopes for the renewed conversations were muffled. The recent Executive Order of Trump has expanded US sanctions, citing concerns not only about Iran’s nuclear activities, but also its ballistic missile program and regional policies.
Tehrano’s claim claim that Washington now wants to fully remove Iran to its strategic abilities, instead of negotiating a limited nuclear agreement such as the 2015 agreement, which Trump later left.
Pezeshkian admitted on Sunday that he supported the idea of talking to the US as a “better” option, but confirmed his loyalty to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader who turned off negotiations last month shortly after Trump announced his approach.
“When the supreme leader said we were not negotiating with the US, I [abided by it and] Announced that we will not negotiate with the US. That’s the end of the story, “Pezeshkian said, in what seemed to be an attempt to calm his conservative critics.
During the discussion, some legislators accused Hemmati of committing negotiations with Washington – which he denied – IO accusing all Iranian economic problems with sanctions.
In his defense, hemmati pointed to the deep -rooted domestic structural problems that preceded his mandate, including growing poverty and wide corruption.
He noted that 10mn Iranci fell below the poverty limit in the last seven years and that goods worth $ 30 billion per year smuggle and come out because of economic favorite and political relationships. He also pointed out acute problems in the banking and energy sector.
“About 80 percent of people collapse because of smugglers, the sanction also profits those with special privileges,” Hemmati said. “Budget deficit. . . It is attached to international development. “
