{"id":338048,"date":"2025-10-09T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=338048"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:41:22","slug":"parliament-in-panic-iranian-regime-lawmakers-admit-to-deepening-economic-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/parliament-in-panic-iranian-regime-lawmakers-admit-to-deepening-economic-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament in Panic: Iranian Regime Lawmakers Admit to Deepening Economic Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_330360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330360\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-330360 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iranian-regime-parliament-mayhem.jpg\" alt=\"Dispute erupts in Iranian regime's paliament (Majlis)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iranian-regime-parliament-mayhem.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iranian-regime-parliament-mayhem-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iranian-regime-parliament-mayhem-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iranian-regime-parliament-mayhem-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iranian-regime-parliament-mayhem-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iranian-regime-parliament-mayhem-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dispute erupts in Iranian regime&#8217;s parliament (Majlis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Three-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a rare moment of candor, Iran regime\u2019s parliament this week became a stage for open confessions about the country\u2019s deepening economic and social collapse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the state-run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/news\/6614206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mehr News Agency<\/a>, Hamidreza Hajibabaei, deputy speaker of the regime\u2019s parliament, devoted his October 8 pre-session speech to a desperate appeal for public appeasement. \u201cThe most important issue for us in the parliament is public satisfaction,\u201d he said, admitting that \u201cpeople are upset about rising prices,\u201d and insisting that the regime is working \u201cwith full power\u201d to restore public trust.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similar statements were echoed on October 5, when several MPs\u2014including Abbas Goodarzi, Mansour Alimardani, Javad Nikbin, and Hossein Samsami\u2014lamented that \u201cthe people can no longer bear the burden of soaring prices.\u201d Yet beyond rhetoric, their words reveal not genuine concern for citizens\u2019 welfare, but growing alarm over the political consequences of widespread poverty.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iranian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iranian<\/a> Officials and Analysts Sound Alarm Over Imminent Social Explosion<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ag4aIychti\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ag4aIychti<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1905939204820918730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Admissions of Collapse<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hammihanonline.ir\/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA-18\/51671-%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%87%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%87%DB%8C%DA%86-%D8%AF%D8%BA%D8%AF%D8%BA%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF-%D9%85%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%86%D9%86%D8%AF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alimardani openly stated<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cThe economy is facing unprecedented pressure. Purchasing power has collapsed, and inflation weighs heavily on people\u2019s tables. Wages rise once a year, but prices rise weekly\u2014sometimes hourly. The salaries of retirees, villagers, and nomads cannot even cover one decent meal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hossein Samsami, another regime lawmaker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jahannews.com\/news\/952875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cWhat we are witnessing now is runaway inflation. Liquidity has increased 6.5 times in eight years, and the price of gold coins has risen 60-fold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He went on to compare the current crisis to the Iran\u2013Iraq War era, noting that while the currency and basic goods were stable during the war, \u201cin the past six years the official exchange rate (against the US dollar) has multiplied 16 times,\u201d calling it the root of the present economic chaos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These admissions go beyond economic commentary\u2014they amount to an indictment of the regime\u2019s governing model. Even the regime\u2019s own MPs are now conceding that the system is structurally bankrupt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Regime Fears Impending Social Explosion Amid Worsening <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Economic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Economic<\/a> and Social Crises<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h9e5afgF4l\">https:\/\/t.co\/h9e5afgF4l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1896908998789722143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Real Source of the Crisis<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vista.ir\/n\/farazdaily\/manaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikbin<\/a> and Goodarzi, in the same session, attempted to frame the crisis as a problem of \u201cpoor government oversight\u201d and \u201cmismanagement.\u201d But such claims ring hollow in a system where all major economic decisions are dictated by unelected and unaccountable security bodies under Ali Khamenei\u2019s command.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In truth, as observers note, the core of Iran\u2019s economic devastation lies in the regime\u2019s corruption and its diversion of national wealth toward regional proxies and the military-industrial complex. Lawmakers\u2019 talk of \u201coversight\u201d and \u201cprotection of the people\u201d merely reflects their fear of an approaching public backlash.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> Resurge as Former MP Warns Nation Is a \u201cDormant Volcano\u201d Amid Economic Ruin and Repression<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3AyfjcN1QL\">https:\/\/t.co\/3AyfjcN1QL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1940421592816996857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fear of an Uprising<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Behind these statements lies a single, unspoken anxiety: the fear of a nationwide uprising. In a country that has witnessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2023-nationwide-uprising-revolution-demonstrations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiple nationwide protests<\/a> in recent years, the regime\u2019s own officials now speak in tones of warning to the top leadership. Terms such as \u201cserious reminders,\u201d \u201coversight,\u201d or \u201cexchange rate reform\u201d are veiled alarms directed at the very center of power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The collapse of purchasing power, the free fall of the rial, and a 200 percent surge in essential food prices have transformed economic indicators into warning signs of impending social breakdown. Retirees, villagers, and workers can no longer afford a decent living, pushing the social fabric to the brink of explosion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amid Fear of Social Explosion, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iranian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iranian<\/a> State Officials Sound Alarm Over Raisi Government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Economic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Economic<\/a> Failures<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tD3QbIGwCc\">https:\/\/t.co\/tD3QbIGwCc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1785028780710334920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A System Beyond Repair<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The October sessions of parliament, far from being economic debates, were scenes of panic\u2014reflections of a regime that senses its foundations crumbling. Even its most loyal figures now fear the wrath of the impoverished majority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lawmakers\u2019 speeches were not protests against poverty, but admissions that the clerical regime can no longer reproduce economic or social stability. The soaring cost of living is not merely a symptom of economic failure\u2014it is the visible manifestation of a deeper collapse: a crisis of legitimacy and survival for a regime that the Iranian people have rejected long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read In a rare moment of candor, Iran regime&rsquo;s parliament this week became a stage for open confessions about the country&rsquo;s deepening economic and social collapse. 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