ifmat - Ayatollahs put Iran on auction to preserve their government
Mar 29 2021

Ayatollahs put Iran on auction to preserve their government

Iranian officials finalized a 25-year trade deal with China on March 27. A day earlier, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh acknowledged Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was supposed to sign the deal during his two-day trip ...
ifmat - Iranian officials brag about their economic accomplishments
Mar 29 2021

Iranian officials brag about their economic accomplishments

For over four decades, Iranian officials have resorted to deceitful methods and fabricated statistics to downplay their economic failures. They have frequently bragged about their financial accomplishments while most of Iran’s population live below the poverty line.
ifmat - Iran internal disputes bubble just below the surface
Mar 26 2021

Iran’s internal disputes bubble just below the surface

Ruthless political disputes occasionally flare up in Iran, indicating not just a lack of consensus over vital issues affecting the country’s internal and external policies, but also the means of ending such disagreements, which are often brutal ...
ifmat - Iran shifts oil exports to the Gulf of Oman
Mar 26 2021

Iran shifts oil exports to the Gulf of Oman

In a massive strategic shift for its oil exports, Iran is to funnel much of its crude via a new port at Kooh Mobarak in the Gulf of Oman rather than the Persian Gulf.
ifmat - The Iranian Regime Mafias of Wealth
Mar 23 2021

The Iranian Regime Mafias of Wealth

The Iranian regime is being devoured by the twin monsters of poverty and starvation, the reality of the depth of the economic crisis that has afflicted the majority of the Iranian population. While the population lives in ...
ifmat - 80 percent of the people in Iran are below the poverty
Mar 22 2021

80 percent of the people in Iran are below the poverty

Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani on March 2, 2021 claimed that, “When we said that the centrifuges would spin and the wheel of the economy would spin too, we kept our promise and we made nuclear energy uncostly.”
ifmat - Iran budget crisis is far from over
Mar 16 2021

Iran’s budget crisis is far from over

The Iranian government is in crisis after the 2021 budget, which recently passed the parliament following months of resistance, was rejected by the Guardian Council.