The Islamic Consultative Assembly (Parliament) of Iran, continuing the process of increasing Iran’s military budget, has mandated the government to allocate 10 percent of “finance” resources to the military sector.
According to the CNN news agency report, the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran on Monday, April 19th, approved a proposal to allocate 10 percent of finance credits for purchasing military equipment.
This proposal was presented by Ismail Kousheri, a representative of Tehran in the Islamic Consultative Assembly. Kousheri was previously a senior member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and “Commander of the 27th Legion of Muhammad Rasul Allah,” “Head of Security Affairs of the General Staff of the Armed Forces,” and “Deputy Commander of Tehran’s Thaaralah Headquarters.”
Based on the government’s proposed bill, the amount of credits derived from financing has been set at a minimum of 50 billion dollars. According to this parliamentary resolution, the government must allocate at least 5 billion dollars of this credit to the military sector for the purpose of “purchasing military equipment.”
Previously, Parliament had also added another 3,500 billion tomans to the military budget ceiling. On Wednesday, April 15th, representatives in Parliament agreed that “revenues resulting from granting exemptions to conscripts with eight years of absence, up to the ceiling of 3,500 billion tomans” would be allocated to the armed forces.
The Islamic Consultative Assembly had also decided that 5,000 billion tomans from revenues “resulting from filing lawsuits in international bodies and foreign countries related to military contracts before and after the victory of the Islamic Revolution” would be spent on “strengthening the country’s defense infrastructure.”
MohammadReza Pourabrahimi, spokesman for the Budget Reconciliation Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, had previously stated: “The Budget Reconciliation Commission has approved a 5,000 billion toman increase in defense credits.”
He identified the areas related to the Quds Force of the IRGC, the country’s missile sector, the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, and the Police Force as areas that were given attention in reviewing defense credits.
The Islamic Consultative Assembly increased military sector credits for the third time, while the government also increased the defense budget by 15 percent compared to the previous year. Ali Larijani announced in December of last year, during a visit to the IRGC Missile City, “the Parliament’s advance support” for increasing military credits.
