{"id":234265,"date":"2021-02-01T07:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=234265"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:16:44","slug":"iran-state-run-media-identify-regimes-corruption-as-root-of-economic-crisis-warn-of-uprisings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-state-run-media-identify-regimes-corruption-as-root-of-economic-crisis-warn-of-uprisings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran State-Run Media Identify Regime\u2019s Corruption as Root of Economic Crisis, Warn of Uprisings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran Protests, November 2019 – file photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iran\u2019s state-run media in recent days have warned the authorities of what they call \u201cpeople\u2019s mistrust,\u201d \u201cviolence,\u201d and \u201crage.\u201d In other words, by counting economic and social hardships, they acknowledge public hatred toward the regime and an inevitable uprising.<\/p>\n

While the regime continues funding terrorist groups and pursuing its ballistic missile program, Iranians, especially workers, are grappling with poverty.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Official] estimates indicate 7 to 9 million tomans as the rate of the living basket. But years of experience has shown that finally, these numbers stay on paper, and the final salary [of worker] has a long-distance with reality,\u201d wrote<\/a> the state-run Hamdeli daily on January 31.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the poverty line has reached 10 million tomans, the wages of the weakest sections of society are still around two-and-a-half million. So, the gap between living conditions and inflation has become more critical, especially this year,\u201d Hamdeli added.<\/p>\n

The regime and its apologists have been trying to blame United States sanctions for Iran\u2019s economic crisis. With the new administration in power in the U.S., some Iranian officials and all the regime\u2019s apologists spread the false notion that Iran\u2019s financial knot will be untied. Yet, the state-run media acknowledge the opposite.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who think that a change of president in the United States will bring about a fundamental change in Iran\u2019s economy are far too optimistic. The root of Iran\u2019s economic problems lies more in domestic politics than in international ones. There is a center of economic corruption in the country, [which is Iran\u2019s] real economic problem,\u201d wrote the state-run Arman daily on January 27.<\/p>\n

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