Hosseinali Hajideligani, deputy chairman of the Majles Commission on Article 90, said an independent deputyship should be created at the Central Bank to “counter the currency war” so that the actions and currency pressures of the “enemy” can be identified and neutralized.

In an interview with Fars News Agency, he said the United States “explicitly” speaks about its plan to reduce the value of Iran’s national currency, but there is currently no specific unit within the Ministry of Economic Affairs or the Central Bank for specialized confrontation with the “currency war.”

Hajideligani also, while criticizing the way foreign exchange is distributed, said that buying and selling people’s national identification codes for amounts of around 50 million tomans shows that the existing mechanism requires serious revision.

Pointing to the impact of an increase in the dollar exchange rate on the prices of goods and services, he emphasized the need to reduce the economy’s dependence on the dollar and to adopt exchange-rate policies that do not harm producers and economic activities.