{"id":304196,"date":"2023-03-22T10:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T09:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=304196"},"modified":"2023-05-03T02:28:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:28:32","slug":"irans-1401-year-a-hopeful-beginning-a-turbulent-journey-and-a-promising-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/irans-1401-year-a-hopeful-beginning-a-turbulent-journey-and-a-promising-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s 1401 Year: A Hopeful Beginning, a Turbulent Journey, and a Promising Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iran<\/p>\n

The Persian Year 1401 has just ended. A year full of ups and downs, sorrow and happiness, fear and bravery for the Iranian people in their quest to establish a secular, non-nuclear, and democratic republic.<\/p>\n

As the year began, the regime\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei lauded the installation of Ebrahim Raisi as the new president, extolling it as a “sweet development.” Yet, as the year progressed, even the state-controlled press reported on the dwindling support<\/a> for Raisi amongst Khamenei\u2019s faction due to the worsening economic and social crises.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s inflation now hovers above 50%, the highest in four years. The value of the national currency, the rial, rapidly plunges. When the year began, the value of a dollar was 250,000 rials, but presently, it has exceeded 450,000 rials. An egg now costs 30,000 rials, which represents a 100% rise compared to last year. Likewise, the cost of meat has skyrocketed to 5 million rials per kilo.<\/p>\n

Unlike the Persian traditions of welcoming Nowruz with sweets, Iranians embraced the 1402 New Year with bitter economic problems. And all are a part of the regime\u2019s dark scheme to compensate for its budget deficit by printing banknotes<\/a>, therefore increasing the country\u2019s liquidity and at the same time damaging the market.<\/p>\n

Khamenei selected Raisi to consolidate power in his regime. Yet, the regime\u2019s ineptitude and oppressive measures intensified under Raisi and weakened the regime by intensifying public outrage against the ruling mullahs.<\/p>\n

During the last year, Iran witnessed a major nationwide uprising, which continues to this day despite the regime\u2019s brutal crackdown. These demonstrations laid bare the regime\u2019s weakness, the power of Iranian youth and women, and the leading role of Iran\u2019s principal opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization<\/a> of Iran (PMOI\/MEK).<\/p>\n

Originally sparked by the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini, the protests soon spread across Iran, with people calling out the entire regime and demanding a free and secular republic.<\/p>\n

As the uprising revealed the real face of a moribund and vulnerable regime. Unsurprisingly, opportunistic forces attempted to exploit this fragility to suppress the nationwide revolutionary spirit, create chaos, foment discord, and detract the democratic revolution by trying to market the deposed monarchy as the alternative to the clerical regime. This plot failed, as Iranians from all walks of life demonstrated their aspiration for a democratic government by chanting, \u201cdown with the oppressor, be it the Shah or the [Supreme] Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

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