Sowlat Mortazavi, the Minister of Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare of the Iranian regime, stated on August 20, “A significant portion of absolute poverty has been eradicated.” This claim is made while in June, the Majlis (Parliamentary) Research Center reported that approximately 11 million more people have been added to the country’s poverty-stricken population between 2011 and 2021. According to the Majlis Research Center’s report, the poverty rate in Iran has been on an increasing trend since 2006, and since 2018, more than 30 percent of the Iranian population has be ..read more

On August 1, 2023, the statements of Hossein Salami, the head of Iran regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Khabar TV revealed a new dimension of confusion, fear, desperation, and ignorance within the regime. These statements underscored, more than ever before, that the rhetoric of the regime’s leaders and stalwarts serves as a smokescreen to conceal the dire state of the regime. Let’s revisit the significant points made by Hossein Salami: 1. He referred to the series of uprisings, particularly the 2022 uprising, as “the most potent, perilous, grave, unequal, and far-reaching g ..read more

Iranian regime media have reported that according to the decisions of the water sector in the “Seventh Development Plan” in the Agriculture Commission of the regime’s Majlis (parliament), “water transfer projects” have been excluded from “environmental assessment.” According to the Didbaniran website, water transfer projects no longer require approval from relevant authorities such as the Environmental Protection Organization or the Organization of Cultural Heritage. As a result, these projects only need to obtain “technical approvals” and approval from the Supreme Water Council. Therefore, ac ..read more

According to a report by the regime’s Etemad newspaper, per capita consumption of red meat has decreased from 13 kilograms in 1390 (2011) to 3 kilograms in 1401 (2022). Similarly, the price of chicken per kilogram has increased from 250,000 rials (approximately $0.5) in 2011 to 1,200,000 rials (approximately $2.4) in 2023. Etemad newspaper attributed this phenomenon to the substitution of low-quality goods and stated that with the increase in prices, the resources available to poor families are diminishing. According to the latest reports, the inflation of red meat has reached 86 percent and t ..read more

According to a report by the Iranian regime’s Etemad newspaper, citing officials from the Iran Spinal Cord Injury Support Center, “Over the past two years, amid rising prices, at least 170 individuals with spinal cord injuries have lost their lives due to pressure ulcers and infections resulting from the lack of hygiene supplies.” On August 15 the newspaper quoted Mahnaz Kazemi, one of the directors of the Iran Spinal Cord Injury Support Center, as saying, “The situation of individuals with spinal cord injuries, especially after multiple price hikes in the country, is dire.” Kazemi referred to ..read more

Mahmoud Karimi Beyranvand, the acting deputy of employment and entrepreneurship of Iran’s Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, has reported a new problem for employers, stating that employers’ concerns about the shortage of resources and capital in circulation have reached the point of securing labor force, and in some provinces of the country, “workers cannot be found.” These statements by Beyranvand come at a time when there has been no particular development in job creation, and experts attribute the reason for this to the lack of attractiveness of official wages for workers. On July 23, H ..read more

The spokesperson for the Iranian regime water industry stated that currently “269 cities” in the country are facing water stress. In a meeting on the country’s water industry held on August 14, Hashem Amini, in response to a question from the regime’s ILNA news agency regarding cities experiencing water stress, said that the Doosti Dam in Mashhad is in a critical condition and the Nahand Dam in Tabriz has also been lost. “The groundwater in the city of Zanjan and Tabas, as well as the “Chahnimeh” wells in Sistan and Baluchestan province, are also at risk”, Amini added. “Chahnimeh” or “half wel ..read more

In its newest report, the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament) Research’s Center described the increase in exit rates from the housing market and indicated that households in the first to third deciles absolutely, third to fifth deciles and even some in the sixth decile are unable to secure the necessary housing for their habitation. In its report titled “Analysis of Housing Policies in Five-Year Development Plans,” the center emphasizes that repeated leaps in housing prices in the late 2010s have doubled the number of households that are unable to purchase a home in comparison to the beginnin ..read more

A leaked “confidential” document from the Iranian regime Presidential Institution reveals that Tehran has spent an estimated $50 billion on supporting the Assad regime during the Syrian war. Only the repayment of approximately $18 billion has been determined, not in cash, but in the form of projects and plans that lack both technical and economic justification and executive guarantees. Reports emerged on May 29 revealing that the Iranian presidency’s website and internal servers were targeted by a group of Iranian dissidents codenamed “GhyamSarnegouni” (meaning “Rise to Overthrow” in Fars ..read more

Some media outlets, including Fars and Tasnim, reported that the Supreme Administrative Court has issued a one-year “suspension from service” order for Abdul Rasool Pour Abbas, the head of the National Organization of Educational Testing. It is said that Pour Abbas did not allow the suspicious candidates involved in the university entrance exam fraud case to return to university, and that is why this order has been issued against him. Tasnim and Fars, both news agencies affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and security agencies, wrote on August 9 that the Administrative ..read more