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US President Donald Trump threatened Iran with obscene words, saying: “Iran knows and has been notified, if (it messes with us), if you do bad things to us, we will do things for you that have not been done. before”.
“I have never heard a president speak publicly like this,” a CNN analyst commented on Trump. “I’ve never heard of a president who had two hours to give a radio show, in addition to the hour he spends on Fox and Friends.” “But what he says is also, frankly, absurd,” he added.
He said: “America is still the most powerful country in the world, while Iran has a bad economy. Of course we can put tremendous pressure on Iran, but the question has always been for what purpose? What is the strategy that is the Trump administration going after Iran? ” He continued: “Of course we can keep strangling him, but without the absence of a broader strategy, all it does is increase tensions in the Middle East, not reduce them.”
A few days ago, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on the banking sector in Iran. In the first reaction of the Iranian economy to the sanctions that affected 18 banks, the riyal recorded a new all-time low during transactions on Saturday after breaking the 300,000 rial barrier again, driving the exchange rate against the US dollar at 303,000 riyals, a decrease of 1.98 percent compared to Thursday’s prices. “
The Iranian rial saw a slight improvement over the past week, as it rose to 270,000 riyals to the dollar, before falling again during last Tuesday and Wednesday trading to about 290,000 riyals. However, sanctions imposed by the US administration on Iran on Thursday plunged the Iranian riyal to a new record high of 303,000 rials.
Iran’s Central Bank Director General for International Affairs Hamid Qanbari said on Saturday: “All banks whose names appeared on the new US Treasury Department sanctions list had previously been subject to sanctions.” He added that after the United States’ withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, “all the US sanctions that were suspended or canceled have been activated, and these banks were among the sanctions that were reimposed.”
And he considered that “the way in which these sanctions are announced shows that the Americans themselves know that this ban will not have any results”, explaining that Washington “when it wants to influence the activity of a financial group, announces its ban suddenly, but does one month they have reiterated that they are going to impose sanctions on these banks. ” “.
On the other hand, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said that Iran does not have enough enriched uranium at this stage to build a nuclear bomb, according to the official standards of the agency.
“The Iranians continue to enrich uranium, to a much higher degree than they were committed to, and this amount is increasing every month,” Grossi added in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Die Press.
In response to a question about how long it will take Iran to build a nuclear weapon, Grossi said: “At the International Atomic Energy Agency, we don’t talk about time … we look at the large and minimal amount of enriched uranium or plutonium needed to build a nuclear bomb. ” He stressed that Iran does not have them. The large amount at the moment.
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