Major General Mohsen Rezaei, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has addressed the impact of US sanctions and a naval blockade to choke Iran’s economy, Al Jazeera reports.
“Iran will suffer from a prolonged blockade. Families will pay a price, investment will be damaged, and sustaining some sectors of the economy will become more difficult,” Rezaei tells DropSite News in an interview. “But economic pain and strategic collapse are not the same thing.”
Tehran’s security chief adds that Washington “has repeatedly made the mistake of believing that if it makes life sufficiently difficult for people inside Iran, the Iranian political system will consequently accept Washington’s strategic demands. These are two different calculations”.
