The enemies try to exaggerate the impacts of economic sanctions on Iran' economy to sow discord between political parties and people, Member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Hassan Asafari said on Saturday.
Resolving disputes inside the country will be the best option to thwart plots of the enemies to this effect, he pointed out.
"Statistics show that despite sanctions, the volume of our country's trade exchanges has increased," Chairman of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines (ICCIM) Mohammad Nahavandian said in relevant remarks on Thursday.
Despite Iran's compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Washington and its Western allies accuse the country of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for the other third-world countries.
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A senior Iranian legislator said that enemies of Iran are seeking to magnify and exaggerate the impacts of the Western sanctions against the country's different sectors in order to create a gap between the people and the government.
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