Senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official Hassan Nouriyan has said that if the money had been spent on infrastructure instead of wars, the United States would not have had to face a crisis like grounding planes across the country for four and a half hours.
US officials say that $50 billion is needed to modernize the country’s aviation industry, while the US claims that the war imposed on Iran has cost about $47 billion.
In an interview with TV, senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official Hassan Nouriyan advised the Trump administration to spend billions of taxpayer dollars and public resources on modernizing and strengthening America’s basic infrastructure instead of spending them on military equipment or supporting the occupying forces to fight wars and massacre innocent people.
He said that the American people have a right to economic resources and that they should be spent on improving the lives of the American people, modernizing essential public services, and strengthening critical systems such as aviation, transportation, communications, and air traffic control.
Hassan Nouriyan said that priority should be given to better caring for American citizens and protecting their interests rather than financing conflicts and military operations abroad.
