Tehran, Iran, Oct.17
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Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization announced that Iran is going to establish a digital central bank in the near future to circumvent the US sanctions.
The enemy has various strategies in its economic warfare, such as the P2C threat (power to coerce) that is imposed through financial and economic pressure, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization Gholam Reza Jalali said during his interview with Fars News agency.
“It is very important to address the country's effective decisions in various economic areas," Jalali said.
“We must make a decision regarding currencies like Bitcoin,” he said. “We held a conference and examined the opportunities and threats of the digital currencies, and our suggestion was that there should be a digital central bank. We would have to create our own national cryptocurrency.”
"We need to be able to control our economy from the "foreign cryptocurrency" so that it does not lead to outflow of capital from the country," he said.
Jalali further said that Iran needs to take advantage of the opportunities created by the cryptocurrency.
"Of course, the country is still a bit skeptical and has not made a final decision," he noted.