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Government spokeswoman Fatima Mohajerani announced today, Tuesday, a 200% increase in the defense budget in next year’s budget.
Mohajerani said in the weekly press conference: “In the past few days, the Zionist entity committed an attack on our country’s airspace, in violation of international law, and caused losses that led to the martyrdom of five.”
She added, “A terrorist group in the southeast of the country carried out coordinated action with the Zionist entity’s attack, targeting ten of our border guards and martyring them.”
The government spokeswoman thanked the Air Defense Forces for their heroic efforts to protect the country, stressing the continued active diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which led to the thwarting of the enemy’s plans and the mobilization of many countries to condemn this blatant attack.
Regarding Iran’s membership in the BRICS group and the president’s recent visit to the group’s summit, Mohajerani explained, “The BRICS group was formed to enhance trade exchanges and to strengthen the economic, political and scientific powers of the member states. The “BRICS Pay” platform for electronic payment has been designed and is currently under implementation and needs some time. to activate it.
She continued, “The Iranian people must realize that Western sanctions are not only military, but they also impede access to raw materials for medicines and the government is working to strengthen the pharmaceutical infrastructure as well.”
Regarding the government’s plans to strengthen the country’s defense force, the government spokeswoman said, “The budget must cover many different aspects, and budgets have been allocated to many sectors in next year’s budget,” indicating, “There are plans to increase the budget allocated to defense by 200%.” % in the next budget.