Iranian lawmaker Mahmoud Nabavian said the United States had proposed preventing the reimposition of snapback sanctions in exchange for Tehran halting all nuclear activities, including uranium enrichment at 20% and 60%.
Nabavian, deputy head of parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told an academic forum in Qom on Thursday that “the real goal of the Americans is to disarm Iran technologically and scientifically.”
He added Washington sought to trigger snapback sanctions to collapse Iran’s economy and drive the national currency to 1,500,000 rials to the dollar but said “the plan failed due to the vigilance of the country’s security and economic authorities.”
Today, the exchange rate is about 1,080,000 rials per dollar.
Nabavian said the United States uses calls for negotiations as a tool to pressure Iran and that “none of America’s promises have ever been sincere.”
He described Washington and Israel as “pursuing domination in the region” and said Iran’s nuclear program remains peaceful.
Nabavian added that future conflicts in the region would differ from the recent 12-day war, with adversaries likely to use economic and internal destabilization efforts before any direct confrontation.
