No Change in IMF Policy on Iran: Lagarde
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – International Monterey Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the IMF sees no reason to change its policy on granting loans to Iran despite US pressures and bans.
"We see no reason to change anything in the guidelines that we have received from the (IMF) Board and continue to operate in the same manner," Lagarde said at a news conference on Sunday, the Economic Times reported.
She was responding to a question on Trump’s new policy on Iran who has strongly urged the IMF and World Bank not to provide loans or funds to Iran.
"We operate with 189 members and we only provide support and enter into program negotiations when a country asks for it," Lagarde said.
Although the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has eight times confirmed Iran's compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Trump said on Friday that he will not certify Iran's abidance by the nuclear agreement it signed with the major world powers in 2015. He also threatened to roll back the deal completely if the US Congress cannot find a solution to change the deal.
World leaders, especially those directly concerned with the deal, have made outspoken reactions to the remarks.
Federica Mogherini, the foreign policy chief of the European Union, who was one of the key participants of the nuclear talks in 2015, denounced Trump's decision in decertifying Iran's deal.
“A nuclear agreement which is working well cannot be dismantled,” she said.
