{"id":340068,"date":"2025-12-03T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=340068"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:06:20","slug":"irans-ruling-system-is-fracturing-under-the-weight-of-its-own-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/irans-ruling-system-is-fracturing-under-the-weight-of-its-own-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Ruling System Is Fracturing Under the Weight of Its Own Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"
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File photo: Iranian parliament (Majlis) descends into shouting and uproar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

These days, the Iranian regime’s parliament resembles something closer to a crisis command room than a legislative chamber. During the session on December 2, 2025, lawmakers took turns describing an economy that no longer functions, a fuel policy they cannot defend, a banking scandal they cannot contain, and a society they fear may soon break its silence. Across the rest of the state-media landscape, parallel signals emerged: environmental emergencies, school closures across half the country, unaffordable food prices, and blunt admissions that core institutions are either captured or incapacitated.<\/p>\n

What tied these threads together was not transparency. It was anxiety. Officials were not exposing wrongdoing\u2014they were trying to manage public expectations before anger spills beyond their control.<\/p>\n

Admitting Failure Without Accepting Responsibility<\/h2>\n

Parliament\u2019s flashpoint came when Hossein-Ali Haji-Deligani opened<\/a> his remarks by noting that a kilogram of rice that sold for 60,000 tomans earlier this year \u201ccannot be found at 120,000,\u201d and demanded an explanation for why distribution had inexplicably stalled. He warned that inflation, \u201c30 percent three months ago,\u201d had surged toward 50 percent while no ministry was willing to state why. The transcript captured rare candor, but it did not signal oversight. It reflected a chamber that no longer trusts the executive to stabilize prices before public frustration turns into something unmanageable.<\/p>\n

The follow-on interventions reinforced that pattern. Maysam Zohuriyan revived<\/a> the long-buried Ayandeh Bank affair\u2014an unresolved, politically protected case whose losses, he said, could have been absorbed for 4 trillion tomans a decade ago but now stand at 500 trillion.<\/p>\n

MP Ruhollah Motafakker-Azad then declared<\/a> that the proposed 5,000-toman \u201cthird tier\u201d gasoline price punishes the very families who purchased cars on credit to survive. He noted that those with no vehicles\u2014meaning the poorest households\u2014will see only the inflationary consequences. His conclusion matched what economic dailies have written for weeks: the policy raises little revenue, but high political cost.<\/p>\n

These objections did not amount to reformist pressure. They were survival warnings.<\/p>\n

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#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Poverty Line Exposed as Deception, Leaving Millions Below Survivalhttps:\/\/t.co\/tC7yv7lDgJ<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) October 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n