{"id":211803,"date":"2020-02-11T20:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=211803"},"modified":"2023-01-21T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T13:54:00","slug":"iran-regime-s-institutionalized-corruption-and-its-strategic-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/iran-regime-s-institutionalized-corruption-and-its-strategic-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime\u2019s Institutionalized Corruption and Its Strategic Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iranian regime's top officials including the supreme leader and president and their families are involved in a systematic corruption in Iran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Iran_Regimes_Institutionalized_Corruption_and_Its_Strategic_Consequences.jpg\" alt=\"Iran Regime\u2019s Institutionalized Corruption leads to its ultimate downfall\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Iranian regime&#8217;s top officials including the supreme leader and president and their families are involved in a systematic corruption in Iran<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/component\/contact\/contact\/9?Itemid=490\">Shamsi Saadati<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a011 February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>As domestic and international pressure grows on the Iranian regime, especially as its\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/election-old\/27361-iran-khamenei-and-his-deadlock-in-the-farce-parliamentary-elections?highlight=WyJmYXJjZSIsIidmYXJjZSciLCInZmFyY2UiXQ==\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 21 parliamentary<\/a>\u00a0election draws closer, factional feuding and infighting is exacerbating. Each faction tries to blame the other for Iran\u2019s economic and social crisis, particularly the regime\u2019s corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The regime has looted Iran\u2019s national wealth within the last four decades. Besides misusing funds for terrorism and oppression, the regime\u2019s institutionalized corruption has resulted in an aristocracy and major social differences between the Iranian people and the regime\u2019s officials and their families.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A glance at some of the confessions made in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>&#8216;s state media highlights the enormous dimensions of this corruption in the mullahs&#8217; system.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranRegimeChange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranRegimeChange<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j7Au7XAmIF\">https:\/\/t.co\/j7Au7XAmIF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1202949073436913665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this regard, Vice President Eshagh Jahangiri, in an interview with the state-run Tasnim news agency on January 28, while using the word \u201cRevolution\u201d for the regime, said: \u201cThe corruption nowadays has taken the entire revolution like termites. While some people are starving, others are plundering the national wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Black Hole of Corruption and Embezzlement in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Regime <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2pbyfKMzoF\">https:\/\/t.co\/2pbyfKMzoF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranRegimeChange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranRegimeChange<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1202947895324004355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite his position as the regime\u2019s Vice President, instead of trying to stop this corruption, Jahangiri only complained about it. Jahangiri speaks of corruption, but he refuses to identify those behind it, since all the regime\u2019s faction and officials, including himself, are involved in it.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/26816-representative-of-iran-regime-s-supreme-leader-calls-for-takeover-of-us-embassy-in-iraq?highlight=WyJrYXloYW4iLCIna2F5aGFuJyIsImtheWhhbidzIiwiJ2theWhhbiJd\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kayhan<\/a>\u00a0daily, known as the mouthpiece of the regime\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in an article on October 17 about the position held by Jahangiri\u2019s brother, who was arrested for corruption, wrote: \u201cMehdi Jahangiri is Chairman of the Tourism Finance Group and Vice Chairman of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, the Vice President&#8217;s brother, founder of Tourism Bank, director of Iranian Cultural Heritage and Tourism Investment Company, which had established six major satellite companies rapidly, chairman of the Board of Directors of Bonab Steel Industry Complex, Member of the Board of Directors of Handball Federation, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Negin Tourism Company, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mahdal Industries and Mines Company etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protests continued in several Iranian cities over economic woes and government corruption despite heavy security measures by the regime to avoid the eruption of further uprisings.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UKVkk4jpk6\">https:\/\/t.co\/UKVkk4jpk6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1212807810641121280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a similar news on February 9, the state-run Rouydad 24 news agency, close to President Hassan Rouhani\u2019s faction, wrote about corruption by the wife of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, former mayor of Tehran who is close to Khamenei. The article titled, \u201cShocking facts and statistics about Ghalibaf&#8217;s wife&#8217;s charity,\u201d reveals that \u201ccorrespondence and documents currently under investigation in the Tehran municipality show that one of the pending assignments is how properties were donated to the charity of Zahra Moshir, the wife of Ghalibaf.\u201d Apparently, Ghalibaf\u2019s wife used the construction of a public hospital as a cover for plundering money. In this regard, the article stated: \u201cIn 2011, only 5% of the property&#8217;s price was received as a down payment by the municipality of Tehran. The rest of the payment was supposed to be paid five percent in cash and the rest as installments. Such a contract was completely one-sided and in Ghalibaf\u2019s favor. Yet, the official letter from the Department of Finance and Urban Economics claimed that the price of the property was initially incorrect, and that the property was sold at one-fifth of the price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The facts listed above once again confirm that corruption and embezzlement is not limited to one person or even a faction within the regime. It is rather institutionalized and won\u2019t stop until the regime\u2019s downfall. This corruption, however, has a strategic impact for the regime. It paves the way for more protests by the Iranian people, who are grappling with poverty and watch their national wealth being plundered.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iranian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iranian<\/a> regime has taken these measures because it fears the resurgence of the popular uprisings and increasing activities of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MEK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MEK<\/a> Resistance Units nationwide.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeAllProtesters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeAllProtesters<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2020<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BoycottIranShamElections?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BoycottIranShamElections<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Ual8feRZ6\">pic.twitter.com\/7Ual8feRZ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1227256052757954561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian regime&rsquo;s top officials including the supreme leader and president and their families are involved in a systematic corruption in Iran Written by&nbsp;Shamsi Saadati&nbsp;on&nbsp;11 February 2020. 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