Iran’s Minister of Financial Affairs and Finance has acknowledged that Tehran isn’t afraid of a possible new spherical of “most strain” beneath US President Donald Trump, stressing plans are in place to deal with any eventualities.
In an extended interview with Iran’s state TV, Abdonnasser Hemmati stated that Iran as soon as skilled powerful financial situations and discovered how you can take care of it when Trump was US president for a primary time period from 2016 to 2020.
“For a interval in 2020, our oil revenues fell to $7-8 billion and the coronavirus sophisticated the issues … however we managed to run the nation and the Individuals failed to attain what they’d promised,” acknowledged Hemmati, who served as Iran’s high banker between 2018 and 2021.
“After the utmost strain marketing campaign (was applied) in Trump’s first administration, the following US administration admitted that the utmost strain had been defeated. That is their very own admission,” he added.
The feedback got here hours after Trump was sworn in as US president greater than two months after profitable one of the vital divisive presidential elections in US historical past.
Trump has not indicated that he’s going to repeat his earlier insurance policies on Iran. Nonetheless, he has picked figures as aides or future ministers who’re recognized for his or her hawkish anti-Iran stances.
Hemmati stated Iran is ready for a possible new spherical of most strain beneath Trump though he prompt that the Individuals would possibly undertake a extra pragmatic strategy towards Iran within the subsequent 4 years.
“We hope they assume extra fairly and take (preemptive) measures to cease issues from escalating. Nonetheless, we aren’t afraid of Trump’s arrival and we’ve got plans for such circumstances,” added the minister.
