The Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters (KAA) is an organization that is heavily involved in all aspects of Iran's economy, so much so that some say it should be called an Infrastructure Empire within the Iranian regime. The KAA has long been suspected of threatening and intimidating private
In recent weeks, Iran has faced a shortage of cooking oil, which has led to a steep price increase. This is while the Iranian government, according to Iran Open Data research, has allocated more than its allocation for importing medicine, heavily subsidized at the government discounted rate of 4,200
According to Iranian government statistics, nearly half of the nation’s unemployed possess university degrees. Data from the year 2019 shows that thousands of university graduates, including those with master's and doctoral degrees, have turned to driving freight and passenger vehicles as a source o
Iran’s official statistics show that the budget for religious institutions is about six times higher than its allocation for artistic and cultural heritage. For example, the budget for the construction of the tomb of the Ayatollah Khomeini is 3.5 times higher than the total 30-year maintenance budge
43 billion, 885 million, 855 thousand and 24 dollars. This is roughly the value of foreign exchange reserves that the Central Bank of Iran, according to its most recent report, has offered to more than 14 thousand individual and legal persons at the price of 4200 Tomans, over the course of two years
Dozens of holdings owned by the wealthy Modallel and Paidar families have received billions of dollars at a government subsidized rate, according to Iranian Central Bank's latest data. Additionally, in the past two years millions of dollars have been given to thousands of "quasi-government" entitie
A "prescription drug mafia" in Iran controls the import, distribution, and pricing of all pharmaceutical products, Senior Islamic Republic officials have publicly declared in recent years. The Health Minister, Saeed Namaki, for example in July 2019 plainly said that operatives of the purported netwo
The Central Bank of Iran’s data shows that the volume of liquidity between 2011 and 2019 increased by about 1.6 trillion tomans. Furthermore, the Statistics Center of Iran’s data on national bank accounts shows that Iran’s GDP between 2018 and 2019 has not changed. Meanwhile, liquidity, during this
In his first term in office (2013-2017), President Hassan Rouhani had a relatively successful record in the area of macroeconomics. His administration’s highest achievement was controlling the inflation rate, which his team managed for two consecutive years to keep in single digits for the first tim
Nowadays liquidity is one of the most widely used terms in the media. The average person may know that it causes inflation and lowers production, but may perhaps not really know what it truly means. Liquidity is a set of monetary assets that are either cash, meaning it is immediately available like
Many news reports have suggested that Iran’s November 2019 protests erupted mainly in disadvantaged and marginal areas of the country. But to what extent does this statement correspond to the official data? Amnesty International announced on December 2, 2019, that at least 208 people had been killed
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