{"id":339685,"date":"2025-11-23T18:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=339685"},"modified":"2025-11-23T18:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:46:16","slug":"fueling-upheaval-insurance-cut-and-luxury-cars-unmask-regimes-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/fueling-upheaval-insurance-cut-and-luxury-cars-unmask-regimes-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Fueling Upheaval, Insurance Cut and Luxury Cars Unmask Iranian Regime\u2019s Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ITC retirees in Tehran protested on May 19, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Iranian regime\u2019s economic signals this week reveal a system frantically tightening its grip, caught between unavoidable fiscal collapse and the terror of mass unrest. On Saturday, November 22, 2025, the government finalized an effective quadrupling of the price for imported super-grade gasoline. Simultaneously, millions of pensioners were cut off from their complementary health insurance beginning November 22.<\/p>\n

These acts of simultaneous scarcity and selective luxury\u2014the state prioritizing imported luxury cars over retiree healthcare\u2014underscore a profound strategic fear: that the approaching anniversary of the 2019 protests<\/a> will be triggered by economic pain the regime itself is now intensifying. The regime is attempting to manage an economy that its own figures acknowledge is built on systematic plunder.<\/p>\n

Governance of Scarcity<\/h2>\n

The abrupt cancellation of complementary health insurance for millions of retirees<\/a> is a blunt move to shore up the regime’s immediate financial gaps, placing the burden on the most vulnerable. The breakdown occurred because the Retirees\u2019 Guild could not agree on a new contract with Atiyeh Sazan Hafez Insurance Company<\/em> and the Social Security Organization.<\/p>\n

The issue was the sharp increase in premiums. Ahmadi Panjaki, a member of the Retirees\u2019 Guild Board, stated that the previous<\/a> monthly premium was 300,000 tomans, split evenly between the Organization and the retirees. The proposed new contract, however, was tiered, with the lowest premium starting at 509,000 tomans, a hike of nearly 70%, making essential supplementary coverage unaffordable for many elderly citizens reliant on meager pensions. By shifting the financial burden onto pensioners, the Pezeshkian administration has traded the stability of millions of households for short-term fiscal relief, demonstrating the government\u2019s functional indifference to the welfare of its long-serving base.<\/p>\n

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#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Retirees Betrayed by Regime Corruption, Pushed into Povertyhttps:\/\/t.co\/jWvWIGjS3G<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n