New budget data shows IRIB will absorb 73% of all government-linked losses in 2025 — a financial black hole fed by oil and taxes.
As gas shortages deepen and oil output falters, officials turn to repackaged announcements while the country’s export future erodes.
Despite renewed US pressure, Iran’s oil exports to China remain steady—propped up by deep discounts, risky transshipments, and rising offshore stockpiles.
Despite multi-billion-toman plans to promote childbearing, marriage and fertility continue to plunge — the Supreme Leader’s demographic ambitions may be slipping out of reach.
Just 2% of Iranian births involve twins or more, but stark provincial differences point to deeper demographic, health, and cultural divides.
IOD’s analysis reveals that nearly half of Iran’s energy is wasted before reaching users—costing billions and exposing deep structural failures.
London’s Court of Appeal has upheld enforcement of a $2.4bn gas arbitration against NIOC, paving the way for asset seizures in Iran’s costliest commercial defeat.
Iran’s education crisis has become nationwide. Structural inequality is deepening across all provinces—not just in the poorest corners, IOD’s analysis of the latest available data reveals.
IOD has found that the combined state allocation for Moses and its sister series Salman the Persian has reached 9.1tn tomans ($182m) over the last four years. From 700bn tomans in 2022 to 4tn in 2025, the budget has ballooned despite no completed production.
IOD’s analysis of UN data reveals Iran as the Middle East’s leading extractor of groundwater, and fifth globally after India, China, the US, and Pakistan. Overuse has placed hundreds of aquifers in critical condition, with land subsidence threatening major cities and “Day Zero” looming in Tehran.
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