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  • Liquidity: How Much Money Iran Printed Between 2011 and 2019?

    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

  • Calling for accountability: how Paraguay’s open emergency procurement can help restore public trust

    At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Contracting Partnership (Author: ROMINA COLMAN) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This post origina

  • Why Has Khuzestan Become the Center of Crisis?

    The southern province of Khuzestan has recently become the center of a new crisis in Iran. Anti-regime protests have erupted in many of its cities, which have been met by deadly response of the security forces. But the protests, sparked by the province’s water shortage, are not the only problem that

  • Khuzestan Generates Significant Wealth for Iran but its People Suffer

    The oil-rich but otherwise poor southern province of Khuzestan is an important contributor to Iran's economy. Steel, sugar, agriculture and electricity are some of the important resources produced by this province. But it is Khuzestan’s oil and gas fields as well as its petrochemical industries that

  • The Qom Monorail: A 220 Billion Toman Incomplete Project

    The Qom Monorail project was intended to develop urban transportation and reduce traffic in Qom. The project started in 2009 and was planned to be completed by 2011. The railway was intended to be built in two phases for a total of 18 kilometers (km). The first phase was about 7 km with 5 stations.T

  • Fight for life: how Ukraine is fixing medical procurement and serving patients better

    At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Contracting Partnership (Author: YEVHEN HRYTSENKO) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian.

  • An Unprecedented Rise in Iran’s Misery Index

    The latest data from Iran's Statistical Centre shows that in 2020, the misery index in the country reached 46%, the highest rate in the last decade. The current upward trends in inflation and unemployment rates predict that Iran's misery index could even go higher by the end of 2021.The misery index

  • Khomeini's Shrine or Persepolis; Which One Does the Government Spend the Most on Restoration?

    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

  • Driving with a Doctorate; What Is the Population of Educated Drivers in Iran?

    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

  • Cooking Oil Crisis in Iran; Who Receives the Cooking Oil Dollars?

    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

  • Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters (Part III); From Real Estate Deals to the Sales of Scrap Metals

    Iran Open Data research reveals the new dimensions of the economic activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters. According to research, this economic giant, affiliated with the Office of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, has almost exclusive con

  • Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters (Part II); What Do We Know About Its Projects?

    In religious literature, Khatam al-Anbiya and Khatam al-Awsiya are among the titles of the Prophet of Islam. But in the Iranian economy each of these titles are the equivalent of the billions that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) receives from national revenue funds. Iran Open Data resea