{"id":337098,"date":"2025-09-18T15:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337098"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:15:06","slug":"irans-class-war-inequality-as-a-regime-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/irans-class-war-inequality-as-a-regime-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Class War: Inequality as a Regime Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian protester holds a placard reading “Inflation has broken the back of the people”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the past year, mounting evidence from inside Iran\u2019s media and economic reporting charts a grim reality: policies and practices linked to the ruling apparatus have not only failed to curb inequality, but they have actively produced and normalized a harsher, more extractive social order. From doctors forced out of practice to families unable to afford school supplies, the signs point to systemic impoverishment that strengthens elite control even as it sows explosive political risk.<\/p>\n

A society reshaped by extraction<\/h2>\n

Independent and semi-official outlets have documented a cascade of social and economic indicators that together sketch a country sliding toward deeper class entrenchment. Reports show professionals abandoning their fields, housing costs devouring incomes, food and basic services becoming less affordable, and family structures fraying under economic pressure. For example, coverage in Arman Emrooz<\/a> and Shargh<\/a> highlights the troubling trend of medical professionals leaving clinical practice for other work\u2014figures that point to a medical labor market under severe strain.<\/p>\n

Those pressures are not accidental side effects: policy choices, institutional privileges and an economy skewed toward rent and patronage have made inequality a structural outcome. Widespread reporting shows that families in Tehran spend a disproportionate share of income on housing, while wage stagnation and inflation leave workers farther behind. Headlines such as \u201chousing swallows 60% of Tehranis\u2019 income\u201d and \u201cfixed wages, volatile prices\u201d illustrate the lived reality of a population squeezed at both ends.<\/p>\n

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Watch and judge how #Iran<\/a>'s education system performs compared to #Japan<\/a>'s. pic.twitter.com\/rjojOE8s1Q<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) October 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n