TEHRAN (ecoideal)- The protection unit of Iran's economy ministry announced in a report that the US state and treasury departments in collaboration with the CIA have put on agenda operations to stir chaos in Iran's foreign currency market by inducing repeated shocks.
"Based on the collaboration plan among the US state and treasury departments and the CIA, an operational program is underway to stir chaos in Iran's foreign currency market through inducing scheduled shocks to eventually destroy trust in the stability of rial value vis a vis the foreign currencies, by means of offices in some nearby states," the report said.
It ensured that the research center of the economy ministry's protection center have discovered and traced these operations, noting, "Most of the field agents active in Iran and used in this project are not aware that such an intelligence mechanism is underway by the US and see themselves as market profiteers who make gains by partnering in these transactions."
The report said the aforementioned operation run by such US offices includes identifying Rial origins and gates, funelling Iranians' capital out of the country in the form of travellers' cheque and through border areas
Organization of a network of regional foreign currency agents with extensive interactions with Iran's currency and liquidity market and sending groups with vast sums of Iranian rial to the bordering cities and even deep into the country to collect dollar from one hand, and bringing major foreign currency market profiteers into direct interaction with organized agents in meetings at the stated offices, on the other hand, are other parts of the measures adopted by the US state and treasury department as well as the CIA, the Iranian economy ministry's protection center said.
Establishing market convergence among agents to concentrate shocks on the market, attempts to maintain the shock operations for 5 working days and funelling the collected foreign currencies out of the country in a move to disturb Iran's economic system are among other joint measures adopted by the US state and treasury departments and the CIA in their operation to trigger disorder in Iran's currency market, the report said.
Senior Iranian officials have attributed the currency market volatility to the enemies, and said, "The enemies are out to destroy the country's assets and instill disappointment among the public."
A sharp drop in rial's value prompted a registration flurry of new companies which have reportedly received government dollars at concessionary prices for imports, but have sold them at inflated rates in the black market.
The situation arose after US President Donald Trump withdrew from May 2015 landmark nuclear deal with Iran and announced the most restrictive sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
The sanctions target Iran's purchase of US dollars, its trade in gold and other precious metals as well as its automotive and aviation sectors.
Iranian officials have said US measures are tantamount to an “economic war”, but President Hassan Rouhani stressed in July that threats against Iran would have the opposite effect.
“Threats will further unite us; we will certainly defeat America,” he said, adding, "That will carry some costs for us, but the benefits will be greater."
Source: Farsnews