{"id":237198,"date":"2021-04-03T06:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T11:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237198"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:00:20","slug":"real-cause-and-outlook-of-irans-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/real-cause-and-outlook-of-irans-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Cause and Outlook of Iran\u2019s Economic Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it comes to Iran\u2019s economic crisis, many of the regime\u2019s apologists, or those unaware of the mullahs\u2019 institutionalized corruption, blame international sanctions. However, the facts and figures, acknowledged by regime officials and state-run media amid factional feuds, show how the regime has devastated Iran\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe price of poultry<\/a>, which has become one of the vital needs of Iranian people\u2019s food basket, has increased. The price of poultry flies in the sky of expensiveness, despite promises by government officials. Today, [poultry] price increased by 4500 tomans. This increase of 4,500 Tomans increased the poultry\u2019s price from 20,400 to 24,900 tomans. This skyrocketing price has taken another form in the free market and instead of resolving the poultry-distribution crisis, has worsened the situation,\u201d wrote the state-run Young Journalist Club on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow poultry is the most expensive item among food items. The poultry price reached more than 40,000 Tomans in the second half of [the Persian Year of 1399]. After several weeks of denial and negligence of the Ministry of Jihad Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade, the government was finally able to control the price to some extent by widely distributing strategic reserves of animal feed. Thus, the [poultry price] fell below 35,000 tomans, but still, this rate was more expensive than the approved price,\u201d wrote the state-run Mashreq News on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the latest report of Iran\u2019s Statistics Center, the inflation rate for the twelve months ending March 2020 for the country\u2019s households reached 36.4%\/. The point-to-point inflation of food items in February reached more than 60%,\u201d Mashreq News added.
\nBut why people experience skyrocketing prices?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ministry of Agriculture Jihad is illegally changing the approved price of poultry for the fourth time. Meanwhile, neither the price of animal feed and [poultry farmers\u2019] wages nor other expenses have increased,\u201d Mashreq News article adds, quoting Mojtaba Tavangar, head of the market regulation committee at the regime\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government is behind 95% of the skyrocketing prices, but they blame the guilds and small business owners for avoiding being accountable,\u201d said Gholamreza Hassanpour, head of the trade union Basij<\/a> on Friday, according to Mashreq News article.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, in most provinces of the country, we face a shortage of live chicken supply, which has led to an increase in prices. The number of chicks in the last one-and-a-half months was 95 million, which did not reach the quorum, while it should be 110 million,\u201d said Mohammad Ali Kamali, CEO of the National Poultry Farmers Union, on November 20, 2020.<\/p>\n

Yet, in April 2020, videos from Iran showed over 16 million chickens being culled. The regime\u2019s affiliates, mainly the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC<\/a>), dominate Iran\u2019s economy and profit from skyrocketing prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe officials\u2019 double standards [in treating people] and their lack of motivation about the [regime\u2019s] ideals have caused misery in the country,\u201d Mojtaba Zoulnouri, Chairman of the Security Commission at the regime\u2019s parliament, said on Thursday, according to the state-run Tasnim Newsagency,<\/p>\n

For instance, Javad Modallal is one of the regime\u2019s affiliates who dominates Iran\u2019s poultry industry. Modallal and his two sons, Saman and Peyman, have used their connections with the IRGC to dominate large parts of the country\u2019s economy. They have a significant share in different industrial sectors like vegetable oil, cement, mineral water, tea, molten iron, and steel.<\/p>\n

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