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NCRI Staff<\/p>\n
NCRI –\u00a0While people from different social strata hold protests and strikes on a daily basis, demanding return of their money stolen by the financial institutions linked to the Revolutionary Guards and other state entities, and yet receive no response but lie, humiliation, and oppression, new aspects of the institutionalized corruption keep popping up amid the clashes between regime\u2019s rival bands.<\/p>\n
In the latest confessions of this kind, regime\u2019s MP \u2018Nader Ghazipour\u2019 points to the case related to Hamid Baghaei, former vice-president during Ahmadinejad\u2019s presidency, saying \u201c300 billion tomans of public wealth entrusted to Khane-Iranian has been defalcated.\u201d<\/p>\n
State-funded from 2010, Khane-Iranian is a set of so-called sociocultural centers set up in different countries during Ahmadinejad\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n
\u201c703 Bahar-e-Azadi gold coins (each worth $333), 1,842 half gold coins, more than 2.1 billion tomans in cash plus another 45.4 million tomans belonging to Presidential Office were found in Baghaei\u2019s house. They claimed they were going to give the funds back after improving their relations with Rouhani\u2019s government. (State-run Entekhab website, October 30, 2017)<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Khamenei\u2019s Kayhan newspaper has highlighted another corruption case on October 31. Pointing to one of defendants in Educators Reserve Fund case who has run away with 500 billion tomans in debt, the newspaper quotes a member of regime parliament\u2019s Education and Research Commission as saying \u201cthe amount of violations is estimated to be more than 14-15 billion thousand tomans. More than 20 were arrested and put behind bars with regard to this case, but now they\u2019re free on bail, having committed to return the money they owe. A number of them, including Mr. M, have escaped the country. Mr.M\u2019s lawyer has said that he\u2019s planning for his client\u2019s return to the country so he could settle his 400-500 billion-toman debt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fearing the consequences of the situation, former regime MP \u2018Ahmad Tavakoli\u2019 has written a letter to Rohani\u2019s vice-president Eshaq Jahangiri, saying \u201cyou can\u2019t both chant resistance economy and at the same time act in favor of tax evaders. We should keep in mind that the share belonging to children scavenging waste containers is being swallowed by tax evaders.\u201d (State-run Mehr news agency, October 31, 2017)<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, state-run Kayhan newspaper on October 31 once again reveals the long-dated scourge of state-sponsored smuggling, saying \u201cfree zones are the best places for smuggling and excessive imports. Smuggling is a scourge that has crippled the country\u2019s industry while its main cause is racketeering by those who are involved in illegal imports.\u201d<\/p>\n
While meager salaries of workers, retirees, and teachers have not been paid for months, state-run Khorasan newspaper confesses \u201cBank Mellat and Bank Eghtesad-Novin have paid their customers 3,700 and 287 billion tomans, respectively, in excess of interest on their deposits. Bank Eghtesad_Novin claims it has paid more than 778 billion tomans as surplus profits in addition to interest on deposits last year, which is three times higher than the bank\u2019s 2015 surplus.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s more than obvious that a four percent minority, to which regime\u2019s sham presidential candidate \u2018Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf\u2019 referred in one of his debates, have at their disposal the entire properties and wealth belonging to Iranian people.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s quite natural that beside the palaces built out of plundering, there is countless number of shanties in which poverty and misery rule. And these slums of misery and humiliation won\u2019t go anywhere unless those castles are razed down to the ground; an inevitable fate the people and resistance of Iran have put all their efforts to make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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