Xinhua reported on the 21st that Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said new US economic and trade sanctions require Tehran to draw up plans to weather them. Speaking in Baghdad at a meeting with Iranian and Iraqi economic figures, he

2026-08-21

Xinhua reported on the 21st that Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said new US economic and trade sanctions require Tehran to draw up plans to weather them. Speaking in Baghdad at a meeting with Iranian and Iraqi economic figures, he said the US and Israel, unable to defeat Iran and Iraq militarily, have shifted to cognitive and economic warfare.