{"id":339154,"date":"2025-11-10T13:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=339154"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:54:43","slug":"iran-elites-warn-of-unrest-as-fuel-hikes-and-fx-reset-ignite-infighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-elites-warn-of-unrest-as-fuel-hikes-and-fx-reset-ignite-infighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Elites Warn of Unrest as Fuel Hikes and FX Reset Ignite Infighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_322613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-322613\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-322613 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/iran-parliament-masoud-pezeshkian-frustrated.jpg\" alt=\"The Iranian regime's president Masoud Pezeshkian appears exhausted, leaning against a wall during a tense parliamentary session in Tehran, July 2024\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/iran-parliament-masoud-pezeshkian-frustrated.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/iran-parliament-masoud-pezeshkian-frustrated-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/iran-parliament-masoud-pezeshkian-frustrated-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/iran-parliament-masoud-pezeshkian-frustrated-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/iran-parliament-masoud-pezeshkian-frustrated-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/iran-parliament-masoud-pezeshkian-frustrated-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-322613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Iranian regime&#8217;s president Masoud Pezeshkian appears exhausted, leaning against a wall during a tense parliamentary session in Tehran, July 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"92\"><em><strong>Three-minute read<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"94\" data-end=\"512\">Iran\u2019s power structure is wrestling with overlapping, self-inflicted crises\u2014soaring prices, a looming currency unification near 100,000 tomans per dollar, fuel-price hikes, and public allegations of entrenched corruption\u2014that have spilled into open feuds in parliament and unusually stark warnings in state media. The chorus of \u201calarms\u201d is less about protecting the public than preserving the regime amid rising anger.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"514\" data-end=\"551\">State Media Says \u201cFear the Inside\u201d<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"553\" data-end=\"895\">On November 9, the state-run<a href=\"https:\/\/jepress.ir\/13227\/1\/4199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <em data-start=\"563\" data-end=\"582\">Jomhuri-ye Eslami<\/em> warned<\/a> that the real danger is domestic, urging senior officials to hang an old admonition on their walls: \u201cfear the inside.\u201d The paper explicitly tied the threat to neglect of livelihoods, psychological pressure on society, and rampant economic graft, even naming high-profile corrupters as cautionary examples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"897\" data-end=\"1087\">The editorial\u2019s subtext is not policy reform; it is crisis management. By acknowledging grievances while avoiding responsibility, it aims to dissipate fury without changing the causes of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1280\">Read bluntly, the paper is telling officials that the next shock\u2014economic or otherwise\u2014will come from the street, not from abroad, and that their job is to head it off to preserve the system.<\/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>&#39;s Regime Floats Tehran Evacuation Contingency as Water Runs Out<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LRTfl2An9A\">https:\/\/t.co\/LRTfl2An9A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1987865991099932789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 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;\" data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1332\">Parliament Erupts Over Fuel, FX, and Corruption<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1334\" data-end=\"1687\">On the floor, hardline MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khabaronline.ir\/news\/2140184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamid Rasaee blasted<\/a> the failure to repatriate export earnings as \u201cabout 80 million tomans stolen from the pocket of every Iranian,\u201d and alleged that a prosecutor removed for corruption two years ago has been reappointed in another city. He framed \u201cdollarized costs with rial wages\u201d as a national-security risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"2046\">MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khabarfoori.com\/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C-59\/3175832-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA-%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF-%D9%82%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%86%D8%B1%D8%AE%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%DA%86%D9%86%D8%AF-%D8%B5%D8%AF-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B2%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%B1-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%84-%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A6%D9%88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amir-Hossein Sabeti said<\/a> the government has approved a three-tier gasoline scheme and challenged the regime&#8217;s president Masoud Pezeshkian to keep his campaign pledge not to raise fuel prices\u2014\u201cif it was a mistake, say so.\u201d He also flagged a controversial 50-billion-toman travel budget request by a senior environmental official as emblematic of excess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2048\" data-end=\"2473\">Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf urged the cabinet not to repeat \u201cunsuccessful experiences,\u201d while MP Javad Nikbin cited bakers\u2019 protests in Mashhad and railed at opacity in rice imports, where traders, he said, take subsidized FX yet sell at sky-high retail prices. The common thread in these interventions is not relief for households; it is alarm that missteps could trigger unrest that threatens the state.<\/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>&#39;s Economic Strain and Unrest Fears Drive Khamenei\u2019s Push for Narrative Control<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F51d8EVrf4\">https:\/\/t.co\/F51d8EVrf4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1965092162502312390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 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;\" data-start=\"2475\" data-end=\"2532\">Currency Reset, Failing Scorecard, and Evacuation Talk<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2534\" data-end=\"2794\">Lawmakers say the heads-of-branches session moved to scrap the 28,500-toman rate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaran.news\/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84-182\/1687938-%D8%AD%D8%B0%D9%81-%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B2-%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%82%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%AA-%D9%87%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%87-%D9%86%D8%B1%D8%AE%DB%8C-%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87-%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%86-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unify the exchange rate<\/a> to 100,000 tomans per dollar. Paired with prospective energy price hikes, that points to a fresh inflation wave with direct household impact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2796\" data-end=\"3172\">Parliament then handed the Pezeshkian administration a 37\/100 for economic performance. MP Tajgardoun put power-sector losses from energy imbalances at 303 trillion tomans for last year. Vice President Mohammad-Reza Aref conceded deep structural mismatches, acknowledging arrears to key suppliers rising to $6 billion despite partial payments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3174\" data-end=\"3584\">Meanwhile, elite rhetoric over the water crisis escalated. Former Rouhani adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hesamodin1\/status\/1986783695710097557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hesamoddin Ashna posted<\/a> that \u201ceven with rain\u2026 not only Tehran but Iran must be evacuated,\u201d while <em data-start=\"3361\" data-end=\"3369\">Kayhan<\/em> castigated the president for \u201cinjecting despair.\u201d These warnings and counter-warnings serve one purpose: to prime society for hardship while keeping a lid on social anger.<\/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 Leadership Faces Growing Fears of Unrest Amid Snapback Sanctions and Internal Divisions<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vHMBfE7JON\">https:\/\/t.co\/vHMBfE7JON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1961788392275853445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 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;\" data-start=\"3586\" data-end=\"3629\">Secrecy Order Tightens Narrative Control<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3631\" data-end=\"3951\">After a legislator publicly boasted that China and Russia had met Iran\u2019s weapons requests\u2014citing rapid air-defense deliveries during a recent clash\u2014the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asriran.com\/fa\/news\/1110608\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> General Staff ordered<\/a> media not to publish information about military-defense cooperation without coordination, calling unsanctioned comments \u201cinvalid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3953\" data-end=\"4217\">The order does not resolve substance; it manages optics. As with the economic message, the goal is to control the story\u2014signal strength outward, suppress details inward\u2014so that anger at shortages and price shocks does not converge with unease over security policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"4219\" data-end=\"5059\">Taken together, these developments sketch a preservationist state confronting multi-system strain: a currency reset toward 100,000 tomans that will reprice essentials; fuel hikes that risk replaying past shocks; open claims of recycled judicial corruption; infrastructure deficits that feed evacuation talk; and a security establishment narrowing acceptable speech. The through-line is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/consequences-of-rewarding-tehran-for-its-double-speak-diplomacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-language strategy<\/a>\u2014alarm and discipline\u2014deployed not to solve root causes but to manage public reaction. In the near term, policy signals point to tighter belts and sharper controls; medium term, the combination of austerity without accountability and secrecy without competence is the classic precursor to broader instability, which even state media now tacitly acknowledges by telling officials to \u201cfear the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read Iran&rsquo;s power structure is wrestling with overlapping, self-inflicted crises&mdash;soaring prices, a looming currency unification near 100,000 tomans per dollar, fuel-price hikes, and public allegations of entrenched corruption&mdash;that have 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