Gharibabadi: Renaming previous failed policies will not make them successful.
The "Iron Gate" operational plan to control the northern and financial corridors will definitely not come to fruition.
Kazem Garibabadi, Deputy Minister for Legal and International Affairs, said later in the TV interview:
Recently, the Americans and Mr. Trump himself announced that they are no longer looking for an understanding and see economic sanctions as an effective tool against the Islamic Republic of Iran; Although the US has been considering economic sanctions against Iran since the beginning of the revolution, and this issue is not new, and only their names are changing, but in fact, it is the same failed policy of the past.
Referring to the record of Trump's first administration, the deputy foreign minister said: Trump himself, in the first term of his presidency, applied the "maximum pressure" policy against the Islamic Republic of Iran, but did not achieve results; It is true that sanctions have effects on people's lives, but the damages caused by these conditions on the global economy, global energy markets, financial markets, etc. The pressure on America is much heavier than the pressure on Iran.
Garibabadi stated that the policy of "economic exclusion" had a similar fate in the new era of Trump, and clarified: the US Treasury Secretary claimed that within two weeks they would complete the task of the Islamic Republic of Iran with a new package of sanctions known as "economic exclusion", but now several weeks have passed and this policy has given the opposite result; Therefore, after this package of sanctions did not work in two weeks and beyond, now they have proposed a new operation plan called "Iron Gate" to control Iran's transportation and corridors in the North, Central Asia and the Caspian region, and this new step will certainly not achieve results.