The surfacing of news reports that indicate that airports in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Germany refused to provide jet fuel to Iranian commercial planes was met with criticism by reformists in Iran, who have always been opposed to sanctions. Meanwhile, it left conservatives who are critical of the administration scrambling to find explanations and solutions for a new headache for the administration.

As the news on the subject was developing, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was inaugurating a factory in the city of Banab, claiming, “Our goal is not to break the sanctions, but to reach the global summits of development.” In Tehran, however, members of the Majlis national security and foreign police committee held an “emergency” meeting to discuss the latest news.

In Kazem Jalali’s words, “A special committee to examine the embargo on airplane fuels has been established in the Majlis and has begun its work since Sunday evening.”

According to the Fars news agency, the spokesperson for the Majlis national security committee added, “The U.S. president has signed this new bill thinking that he can put Iran under extreme isolation. These unilateral U.S. actions are designed to make impossible Iran’s access to refined petroleum products, such as gasoline and jet fuel, and also access to the international banking system.”

In another report, the IRNA news agency quoted Alaeddin Boroujerdi as saying that the transportation minister also took part in the emergency committee meeting. Meanwhile, the Majlis Research Center, which is run by Ahmad Tavakkoli, a conservative lawmaker who is critical of the administration, announced that it will “examine the dimensions of the new sanctions.”

It must be noted that a majority of lawmakers had previously published a letter claiming that the sanctions are ineffective and that the increasing international pressure would actually lead to Iran’s “progress and development.”

Despite the official slogans and claims, and based on Fars’s report, the Majlis Research Center held an emergency meeting yesterday to find a solution to the growing international isolation of Iran, which have now affected the access of Iranian airplanes to fuel in airports around the world.

In another development, it was announced yesterday that Majlis speaker Ali Larjani, who has been involved recently in heated confrontations with hardline lawmakers in the Majlis, will head to Geneva soon to take part in the international meeting of the World Conference for the Speakers of Parliament.

 Domestic news agencies did not mention potential meeting between Ali Larijani and the relevant sanctions officials, but it is said that Larijani would not pass on the opportunity to meet with European officials to convince them to reduce the scope of sanctions against Iran.

It must be noted that before becoming the Majlis speaker, as the head of Iran’s National Security Council, Ali Larijani met several times with the 5+1 officials, failing at the end to secure the international community’s trust toward Iran’s nuclear program.