Saturday's Expediency Council Meeting0640 GMT: Forget the rhetoric, the real clue to Iran's evaluation of international sanctions lay in a meeting of the Expediency Council on Saturday.
After the disputed 2009 Presidential election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boycotted the meetings of the Council, headed by his rival Hashemi Rafsanjani. However, he was present yesterday. So were his leading Ministers.
Reports of the meeting focused on denunciation of the West's sanctions, propaganda, and "psychological war". Details of the discussion and, more importantly, the regime's response to the sanctions are sketchy. However, the Secretary of the Expediency Council, Mohsen Rezaei, identified the challenge of restrictions on Iran's financial transactions, transfers of currency and shipping.
According to Rezaei, Ahmadinejad told the meeting that he had established a one-year plan to deal with the crisis.
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