According to Khabar Online political correspondent, Moslehi was speaking on the sidelines of the Cabinet session held this week: “Those 40 persons that Judiciary branch had earlier announced their apprehension comprised just a part of persons involved in hiking up the rate of foreign currencies and the total number of the detained saboteurs is about 50 persons.”
“Several organizations were and are tasked with identifying and arresting the above-mentioned individuals. As the security organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran we were responsible for discovering about their actions,” he said.
“Thanks God owing to the cooperation of all intelligence organizations in the country, we could identify the saboteurs who some of them were low-echelon members of their teams and some others were key members,” Iran's Intelligence Minister said
"Thanks God, by taking such measures, we have achieved a positive outcome which will be announced at a convenient time," he said without giving further explanation.
“We could obtain valuable information from the detainees including the role played by the foreign media particularly satellite TV channels which must be taken into consideration by the Iranian people, although our nation has always been attentive about such actions,” Iran's Intelligence Minister stated.
“A part of the saboteurs were arrested in Tehran province and the rest in the other Iranian provinces.” On a person called Jamshid Besmellah [the nick name of the key man allegedly behind the boost of foreign currencies], Moslehi added: “let's not talk about these persons until their investigation procedures come to end.
In a month, the U.S. dollar was boosted against rial once more in Iranian markets as a dollar has been exchanged for between 35000 to even 40000 rials.
In the unofficial market.
He went on to say: “We warn anti-revolutionaries and seditionists who take actions alongside them to avoid attempting against the Islamic revolution since the Ministry of intelligence is observing their emotions.”
“The same is true about those neighboring countries which aid foreign organizations to increase economic problems in Iran,” he said.
Moslehi had acknowledged in February the idea expressed by some economic analysts that what is called "the deviant economic current" is held accountable for a high fluctuation in the markets of foreign currency [and gold] in Iran.
"Obviously some measures are being taken both inside and outside the country to make people disappointed, among them is creating chaos and problems in the economic climate of the country,” he said at the time.
According to the Principalist factions of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the deviation current is led by the controversial top adviser and close aid of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei.
In several occasions, Mashaei has been accused of attempting to reduce the pivotal role of jurisprudents (Foqaha) in the political scene of the Islamic Republic of Iran through insisting on the nationalist strain of Iranian culture and history.
The head of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Mahmoud Bahmani also called the new wave of dollar raise “unnatural and false” saying it’s simply a stock jobbery fomented by some “elements”.
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