🔶 قالیباف: Military power won’t hold up when people are hungry

Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the head of Iran’s parliament, says that a country’s military power will not last when people are hungry and there is no economic growth.

He said on Thursday, 30 Mordad (20 August), in remarks in Baghdad to Iranian and Iraqi merchants, “No matter how much military power we have, but if people are hungry and there is no circulation of money, economic growth, and national production, we won’t last.”

Ghalibaf added that “we must plan to overcome oppressive sanctions so that we can prevail over them.”

According to the Iranian parliament speaker, security and the economy are inseparable, and “if security is not established, capital will not come either, and if we establish security and do not move forward its continuity with the economy, then it will not be sustainable.”

Ghalibaf’s remarks are being reported in a context in which the United States has adopted a plan to advance the “world’s heaviest sanctions” against Iran by moving the military option out of priority. Donald Trump has warned countries of any commercial and financial dealings with Iran and has threatened them with penalties.