Hemmati was removed from the office after 182 out of 182 out of 273 MPs, which was voted against them amid widespread public dissatisfaction due to the increasing cost of life.
Iran’s economy minister has been impeached after the Parliament voted to dismiss them from the office amid rising inflation and falling currency.
Out of 273 MPs, 182 out of 182 MPs, Abdolnasar Hemmati was removed from the post, Chairman of Conservative Parliament Mohammad Baghar Galibaf on Sunday announced six months after taking over the government of liberal President Masaud Peseshkian.
In 2015, the Iranian riyal was priced at 32,000 for the United States dollars, but by the time Pazeskian took over in July, it fell to about $ 600,000 in the open market.
With the recent growing regional tension, it fell further, traded hands for about 950,000 riyals for a dollar on Tehran’s exchange shops and streets. Riyal’s devaluation has created widespread public dissatisfaction due to the increasing cost of living and increased inflation, at a time when Novuz New Year season is coming in March.
President Pasian, who was present during the session on Sunday, defended a former governor of the central bank and the presidential candidate Hemati. He told the MPs that “We are on a full scale [economic] War with the enemy … We should form war ”.
“The economic problems of today’s society are not related to a person and we cannot blame all this,” he said.
During the impeachment proceedings, Mohammad Qasim Usman, a legalist who supported Hemmati, argued that the rising inflation and exchange rate was not the fault of the current government.
He pointed to the budget deficit left by the administration of Hardline President Ebrahim Raisi, stating that he contributed to economic instability.
First big shock for Pezeshkian government
Hardline MPs, who have been attacking the Peseshakian team since the introduction of their government, argued that Hemati was playing an important role in Iran’s economic instability and could be “dangerous” for the country if it was allowed to stay in the office.
A long -term hardline legalist Hosinali Hazidaligani, who deliberately depicted the national currency to fill government coffeers with a short -term landfall, accused the minister who would cover the budget deficit at the cost of damaging the economy and the average Iranian.
Hemmati dismissed the allegations, and pointed to a 10 percent decrease in inflation. He admitted that inflation still remains more, which is 35 percent. He told the MPs that his team was working hard to address the issue, but warned that the process would take time.
Hemmati emphasized that Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, which was left unilaterally in 2018 by US President Donald Trump, is now at a significant turn. The Western Power Party has only to activate its “Snapback” mechanism for the deal by October that can restore all United Nations restrictions against Iran.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has insisted that Tehran will not negotiate in Washington under the “maximum pressure” policy of Hawks. Pezeshkian told Parliament on Sunday that he wanted to talk, but changed his stand after the comment of the supreme leader.
The arguments of the economy minister’s unity were eventually ignored, with the vote against Hemty, for the first time, he has been successful in taking out a senior officer in the administration of Centrist Pezeshakian to mark the hardline MPs. However, Hemmi is unlikely to be cut off from the government, as impeachment ministers have been appointed as the President on several occasions as special advisors.
In search of the government’s policies and impressing, some MPs have continued efforts to exclude former External Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif from the post of Strategic Advisor.
The local mismanagement and corruption added over the decades of US -led sanctions has defeated Iran’s economy. Gaza has only increased public anxiety over further economic instability, between the expansion of Israel’s war and in recent months with resistance to Iran.
For the last three months, Iran has been forced to close major services across the country due to an energy crisis.
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including the US and Israeli officials, regularly threaten to bomb the nuclear and energy facilities on the nuclear program of Tehran, the US and Israeli officials.
