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It\u2019s become so commonplace these days for Iranian regime officials to warn over the threats and consequences of the constitutional corruption within the regime\u2019s different bodies, describing it as a super challenge.<\/p>\n
While economic experts from both sides of the regime\u2019s spectrum acknowledge that it\u2019s the regime\u2019s very economic structure that gives rise to rentiering and corruption, yet when it comes to dealing with the crisis, each of regime\u2019s rival bands points its accusing finger at the other as the source of corruption.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf people come to the conclusion that officials are incapable of solving their problems, then it will lead to a real frustration\u201d, says Eshaq Jahangiri, Hassan Rouhani\u2019s first vice president, while acknowledging the fact that corruption will cause real problems for the people. \u201cThe country\u2019s current economic problems need a political solution, and not an economic one. When you say that the economy is in a bad state, it means that you\u2019ve put the economy on the wrong track and therefore it has to change its direction\u201d, adds Jahangiri. (Regime\u2019s Parliament news agency, March 23, 2018)<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, regime\u2019s MP \u2018Amir Khojasteh\u2019 warns that \u201cif officials are not going to put an end to corruption, then corruption will put an end to us\u201d. Khojastedh then acknowledges \u201cthe most important challenge we were faced with last year was corruption, demonstrated in big financial corruption cases in such entities like the customs and banks. Meanwhile, many of our officials unfortunately remained silent in the face of such corruptions. Corruption has now become widespread and people are upset and angry about it, which like a seven-headed dragon keeps popping up from somewhere even with one head cut off.\u201d (State-run Etemad-Online website, March 25, 2018)<\/p>\n
Along the same lines, state-run Janhannews website on March 25 writes \u201cthe issue of corruption in the country\u2019s executive bodies has turned into one of the society\u2019s major challenges. In addition to remarks made by some officials and experts about the complicated state of the country\u2019s economy, news of detecting billion-toman embezzlements acts like a sander on people\u2019s minds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pointing to regime\u2019s endless plundering and embezzlement, state-run Fararou website on March 25 acknowledges that \u201cthese are the Iranian people who are actually paying the price, as the embezzlements and frauds are eventually funded from people\u2019s pockets in the shape of different kinds of taxes and duties imposed on them, in such a way that it\u2019s expected that this year the low and middle income population will be bending even more under the pressure of different types of duties of unknown nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also Regime\u2019s MP \u2018Ziaollah Ezazi\u2019 says in this regard \u201ccorruption has penetrated into the country\u2019s executive, legislative and judicial bodies and will put the entire regime at risk unless it\u2019s dealt with. I should say that with regard to corruption, the danger is imminent.\u201d (State-run Fars news agency, March 24, 2018)<\/p>\n
Also in this regard, regime\u2019s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad writes in his open letter to Khamenei \u201cunfortunately, the Islamic Republic lacks any practical and clear economic model. Despite the fact that our economy is neither based on capitalism nor is it a conventional state-run economy, but it has the flaws and negative aspects of both systems at once, meaning such problems like injustice, social gap, poverty as well as state corruption, bribery and rentiering are all included in our economy.\u201c (State-run Dolat-e-Bahar website, March 18, 2018)<\/p>\n
The fact, however, is that the main source of plundering and corruption lies at the top of the regime, where Ali Khamenei and his associated entities are.<\/p>\n
As Mostafa Tajzadeh, Deputy Interior Minister during Mohammad Khatami\u2019s presidency, writes in his open letter to member of regime\u2019s Expediency Council \u2018Ahmad Tavakoli\u2019 \u201cKhamenei only claims to be the flag-bearer of combating corruption. In practice, however, he and his associates are either directly involved in corruption –like the judiciary– or have indirectly played a role in spreading it, like the Revolutionary Guards with their wide-ranging economic activities. Khamenei and his associates\u2019 factional approach towards combating corruption –capping some corruption cases while dragging out the others– has actually expanded the dimensions of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n
Needless to say that such recommendations and concerns expressed by regime officials is a little too late, as the Iranian people overwhelmed with a corrupt regime are running out of patience, and, as they\u2019ve already shown, are not going to tolerate this regime any longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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