Washington announced on Friday that nine countries have been granted extended waivers of the US sanctions on Iran.
China, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Taiwan have been added to the list of countries exempt from the sanctions for another six months.
The move follows a similar action in September, in which the US exempted eleven countries from the sanctions.
Speaking on Saturday, member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Ahmad Bakhshayesh stated that the move proves that the world needs Iran oil.
"Every once in a while, US is forced to withdraw from its policy of sanctions and pressure against Iran because of the hardships that its people, friendly countries and allies are facing due to Iran sanctions, and this time the US has had to think again about Iran bans in order to reduce these pressures and meet its need to energy and oil products," Bakhshayesh said.
The lawmaker added that, the United States has realized that sanctions have had no effect on Iran's plans and its forward movement.
The lawmaker stated that when countries see inefficiency of sanctions, they find the US sanctions policy against Iran as contrary to their interests and do not agree with it.
Iranian officials have on repeated occasions reiterated that the US-led western sanctions on the country have influenced Iran's economy positively.
Last week, Vice-Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard underlined the positive outcomes of sanctions and pressures on Iranian economy and oil sector, saying that pressures and embargos pave the way for Iran to end its dependence in oil revenues.
"Our enemies helped us today and we managed to cut Iran's dependence on oil revenues in a short time which is a great development in the country's economy," Aboutorabi said, addressing a meeting in the holy city of Mashhad.
"One of the problems that we were facing for a century was reliance on oil revenues," he added.
Many Iranian officials believe that the West's ban on Iranian oil supplies will help Iranian economy end its dependence on oil revenues.
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The US decision to extend waivers to a number of countries over Iran's oil sanctions demonstrated that sanctions had no effect on Tehran, a senior Iranian legislator said.
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