{"id":340911,"date":"2025-12-27T21:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=340911"},"modified":"2025-12-27T21:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:12:22","slug":"irans-most-perilous-20-years-cabinet-turmoil-deepens-amid-currency-slide-and-smog-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/irans-most-perilous-20-years-cabinet-turmoil-deepens-amid-currency-slide-and-smog-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s \u201cMost Perilous\u201d 20 Years: Cabinet Turmoil Deepens Amid Currency Slide and Smog Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran\u2019s clerical regime is showing widening strain as senior insiders warn the country has entered its most perilous period in decades\u2014while the government of Masoud Pezeshkian confronts an escalating impeachment drive, renewed pressure on the central bank, and a cascade of social and environmental crises that officials increasingly acknowledge they cannot contain.<\/p>\n

Former vice president Eshaq Jahangiri\u2014long part of the clerical dictatorship\u2019s senior management\u2014offered one of the bluntest official assessments in recent memory. Speaking on December 25, 2025, he said<\/a> the country\u2019s situation is \u201ccritical\u201d and \u201cin at least the last twenty years\u2026 more critical and more difficult than all previous periods,\u201d arguing that today\u2019s danger lies in the \u201cmulti-dimensional\u201d accumulation of unresolved crises that have become \u201cbroader, bigger, and more complex.\u201d<\/p>\n

That warning lands as parliament intensifies a pressure campaign against Pezeshkian\u2019s cabinet. Ahmad Naderi, a member of parliament\u2019s presidium, has said impeachment efforts have advanced for at least seven ministers\u2014Labor, Oil, Roads and Urban Development, Energy, Culture and Islamic Guidance, Sports, and Agriculture\u2014with the presidium expected to \u201cdetermine\u201d the pending cases quickly. In the same remarks, Naderi claimed the number of ministers \u201cin the impeachment line\u201d has risen to nine<\/a>, with additional efforts reportedly being prepared against the ministers of Industry and of Science.<\/p>\n

The impeachment push is unfolding alongside signs of instability at the heart of Iran\u2019s economic management. A report citing claims by Fars News said the government is reviewing the possible replacement<\/a> of central bank governor Mohammad Reza Farzin and that five candidates have been proposed to Pezeshkian as alternatives. While the report frames the discussion as a response to public economic pressure, it underscores the scale of the currency crisis that has increasingly become the measure of state stability.<\/p>\n

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#Iran<\/a> faces a winter of crises: Deadly floods in the south kill at least seven, inflation drives up food and medicine costs, corruption diverts billions, amid elite infighting and blame game. https:\/\/t.co\/WhuMjxTIp3<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) December 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n