Iran’s ‘Ghost Airlines’: How Regime Insiders Plunder Billions While the Nation’s Economy Craters

Three-minute read On August 31, 2025, a member of the Iranian regime’s parliament, Ali Khezrian, exposed a scheme that perfectly encapsulates the nation’s economic decay. He revealed that one Iranian airline with only a single active airplane has 2,500 people on its payroll. In one provincial capital, he noted, 500 of these employees do nothing … Continue reading Iran’s ‘Ghost Airlines’: How Regime Insiders Plunder Billions While the Nation’s Economy Craters