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On August 16, 2023, the state-run Roydad24 published<\/a> a damning acknowledgment of Ali Saadvandi, a state-affiliated economist. \u201cIn the last 20 years, we had roughly $1.5 trillion worth of foreign exchange resources, but we wasted them. This was indeed a vast amount, and had we invested it in infrastructures, our country could have progressed like countries such as Japan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He explicitly acknowledges that $1.5 trillion of people\u2019s wealth has been squandered.<\/p>\n As we scrutinize this staggering number through the lens of Iran’s family units, conservatively estimated at 24 million, an alarming revelation emerges: a per-family misappropriation equivalent to an astounding $62,500, surpassing the threshold of 30 billion rials. This heart-wrenching calculation unveils a sinister reality\u2014each Iranian household has been mercilessly plundered, robbed of resources that could have resolved profound societal ills such as housing shortages, crippling unemployment, and soaring prices.<\/p>\n The consequences of this monumental larceny reverberate with the agonizing tales of destitution, where graveyards become shelters, children toil in place of education, the cities’ outskirts beckon as the only refuge, and the unthinkable act of selling one’s organs stands as a desperate choice. In the event of this ill-gotten wealth being rightfully restored to its rightful owners, headlines would not be plagued by the specter of people renting bread or desperate mothers contemplating the unthinkable sale of their children.<\/p>\n On May 9, the regime\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, blatantly claimed he has been warning about \u201cthe hydra of corruption for the last 20 years.\u201d This hydra of corruption, which resembles Khamenei and his financial institutions and his Revolutionary Guards<\/a>, dominates Iran’s economy and squanders the national wealth on terrorism and other malign activities such as developing a nuclear bomb to ensure their survival.<\/p>\n When the voracious “corruption hydra” engulfs wealth and national capital, its devastating repercussions don’t remain localized; they swiftly propagate, trailing a dangerous path of deterioration. Comparing Iran’s GDP per capita [based on purchasing power] with Turkey, Azerbaijan, Jordan, and Iraq from 2000 to 2022, the state-affiliated Farhikhtegan newspaper<\/a> declared on August 29, “The head of the National Development Fund issued a stark warning, implying that we could descend into dependence on neighboring nations for gas, wheat, medical services, logistics, and more, leaving our people anxious about becoming mere vassals to our neighbors.”<\/p>\n #IRGC<\/a>'s Terror Designation by US Could Hurt #Iran<\/a> Regime's Economyhttps:\/\/t.co\/mVuGEckZgl<\/a>#BlackListIRGC<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Dmp3MWXwLz<\/a><\/p>\n — NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) April 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n