{"id":347608,"date":"2026-08-27T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=347608"},"modified":"2026-08-27T19:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:04:04","slug":"irans-economic-crisis-the-product-of-decades-of-regime-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/irans-economic-crisis-the-product-of-decades-of-regime-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Economic Crisis: The Product of Decades of Regime Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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State-affiliated media in Iran have recently acknowledged what ordinary Iranians have experienced for years: the country’s economic resilience<\/a> is weakening. In comments published by the state-run ISNA news agency, a regime-affiliated <\/strong>political analyst warned that Iran’s “reduced economic resilience, deepening domestic divisions, and growing difficulty in reaching political consensus” could amplify the effects of new U.S. sanctions. Such remarks are significant because they come from within the regime’s own media sphere and amount to an implicit admission that the Iranian regime enters this period of pressure from a position of economic vulnerability.<\/p>\n

Yet these warnings also raise a more fundamental question: Why has Iran become so vulnerable in the first place?<\/p>\n

For decades, the Iranian regime has sought to portray sanctions as the principal cause of the country’s economic hardships. Inflation, unemployment, declining purchasing power, housing crises, and budget deficits are routinely attributed to external pressure. Sanctions have undoubtedly imposed significant costs on Iran’s economy. However, to present them as the primary cause of the country’s economic decline is to overlook the deeper reality. The roots of Iran’s crisis lie in decades of policy choices by the clerical regime itself.<\/p>\n

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Empirical Data and Street Riots Expose Iran Regime\u2019s Misplaced Priorities as the True Engine of #Economic<\/a> Devastationhttps:\/\/t.co\/297ujYv7EX<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n