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| Iran Minister Says Sanctions Drive Inflation above 30% |
| 2013-04-24 |
| [An Nahar] Iran's Finance Minister Shamseddin Hosseini said Tuesday that international sanctions had pushed inflation above 30% and was causing "a lot of trouble" but that Iran's nuclear drive would not be halted. Lashing out at measures by the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... , United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , Hosseini said the Iranian economy was increasingly gearing up to produce at home the goods that it cannot import. "We work harder, we work more, we strive much more, we find new ways; we even change trading partners," he told a group of news hounds at the Iranian U.N. mission in New York. The U.N. Security Council has ordered four rounds of sanctions to back demands that Iran halt its uranium enrichment. Measures by the United States and EU also target Iran's oil exports and central bank activities. Western nations say Iran is hiding efforts to make make a nuclear bomb. Iran denies the charge, but refuses to disclose key details to the U.N. atomic watchdog. "We never have and we never will stop behind the obstacles they create on our path," Hosseini declared. The minister said the sanctions were "quite vast, all-encompassing and political most of all." They cause "quite a lot of trouble, quite a lot of hard work." |
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