U.S. President Trump said on the 25th that Iran will become a “new market” for the United States.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, Trump invited farmers to the White House for dinner that day, promising that post-war reconstruction in Iran might bring good news to American farmers.
Trump said: “We are opening up global markets for farmers. Now there’s going to be an additional market, and that’s the ‘lovely country’ of Iran.”
He stated that Iran is facing a food shortage crisis, “We will take some of their money, and then spend that money to buy wheat and soybeans. This process will begin soon. And its scale will be quite large.”
Previously, on the 23rd, Trump had said that in the future, Iran will use the funds unfrozen after sanctions are lifted to purchase U.S. agricultural products.
On the 25th, Iranian Islamic Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on social media that the United States wrongly claimed Iran’s unfrozen assets would be used to buy American agricultural products, saying, “The only crop we will harvest is the distrust you (America) have sown with your own hands over the decades.”
On the 23rd, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bagheri said that Iran will decide how to use its unfrozen assets entirely based on national interests and will not be subject to any restrictions.