{"id":339233,"date":"2025-11-11T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=339233"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:07:31","slug":"irans-economic-unraveling-deepens-as-currency-falls-and-scandals-multiply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/irans-economic-unraveling-deepens-as-currency-falls-and-scandals-multiply\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Economic Unraveling Deepens as Currency Falls and Scandals Multiply"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE PHOTO: Security forces roam the street during a protest in Zahedan- March 3, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Iran\u2019s overlapping economic and governance crises are converging into a single, corrosive breakdown. Within days of approving a long-delayed currency \u201cunification\u201d at 100,000 tomans per U.S. dollar, the market rate has already slid past 110,000, signaling a collapse of confidence in both the policy and the government that announced it. Prices of food, medicine, and fuel are spiking again, state newspapers are warning officials to \u201cfear the inside,\u201d and corruption scandals are eroding what remains of public trust. The regime\u2019s own voices now echo a single refrain: the danger is no longer foreign\u2014it\u2019s domestic.<\/p>\n

Currency Reform Without Credibility<\/h2>\n

The decision by the heads of Iran\u2019s three branches to replace the 28,500-toman preferential rate with a \u201cunified\u201d rate around 100,000 tomans per dollar was billed as a step toward transparency. Instead, it has exposed the depth of fiscal exhaustion. As the free-market rate breached 110,000 tomans<\/a>, importers froze orders, fearing another devaluation. Parliament members warned that the move would ignite a new inflationary wave, hitting fuel, food, and medical supplies.<\/p>\n

The Darooyar plan,<\/em> which replaced the 4,200-toman subsidy with free-market pricing for medicine, has already pushed drug and medical-equipment prices up by about 70 percent, according to Rooidad24<\/em><\/a>. Even state-aligned newspapers now admit that hospitals cannot restock essential supplies and that patients are being forced to purchase treatments privately. The conservative daily Khorasan<\/em> blamed<\/a> \u201cspecial companies with import monopolies\u201d and a \u201cmafia of medicine\u201d profiting from the chaos\u2014a rare acknowledgment of cartel power embedded in the state itself.<\/p>\n

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#Thread<\/a> #Iran<\/a> Regime\u2019s Darooyar Plan: Another Plot to Deprive Iranians of Their Healthcare by @MansoreGolestan<\/a>
Millions of Iranians are forced to buy more expensive medicine or go without it, as the prices of prescription drugs will increase by 20 to 30%https:\/\/t.co\/fRg4BwYLA5<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) July 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n