Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has ridiculed the United States government’s promise to impose some of its most crushing sanctions on the country, saying the US war of aggression on Iran has left the Americans struggling with nothing but acute economic problems.
Qalibaf said in a Monday post on his X account that the US has been experiencing some of the most acute economic problems as a result of more than six months of aggression and pressure on Iran.
He said Americans have no solution to fix their deepening economic problems, like falling wages, declining yields on their bonds, and the recession in the US housing market.
“Importing frozen meat to fix meat prices. Okay, that might work… What’s the plan for bonds, import frozen yields? Frozen homebuyers for housing? Frozen paychecks for wages?” said the Iranian Speaker in the post.
Qalibaf suggested those problems have been a direct result of the aggression against Iran, which the US started in late February in a joint war with Israel, and has been struggling to put an end to ever since.
The post comes as energy and commodity prices have soared in the US and many other parts of the world because of the war on Iran and its impacts on cargo transit through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Iran has imposed restrictions on passage through the Strait since the early days of the war, with authorities repeatedly saying that a return to normal in the waterway would only happen when the US completely ends the aggression and lifts its sanctions and blockade on the country.
The Strait of Hormuz is responsible for a fifth of global oil supply and a third of the world’s demand for agricultural fertilizers.
Qalibaf said in his post that the frozen state of the US economy is a result of its “frozen foreign policy.”
“The only thing still moving? The Iran boomerang,” he said.
