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One of the key characteristics of the Iranian regime for the past four decades has been its fondness for crisis management. The Islamic Republic seems to thrive on wrestling with crises rather than planning for the future. In fact, the Iranian Government’s planning department was shut down for many

This data is taken from Table 14 of the Journal of the Provincial Economic, Social, and Cultural Status.

This data is taken from Table 13 of the Journal of the Provincial Economic, Social, and Cultural Status.

This data is taken from Table 4 of the Journal of the Provincial Economic, Social, and Cultural Status.

This data is taken from Table 3 of the Journal of the Provincial Economic, Social, and Cultural Status.

This data is taken from Table 2 of the Journal of the Provincial Economic, Social, and Cultural Status.

This data is taken from Table 1 of the Journal of the Provincial Economic, Social, and Cultural Status.

The Islamic Republic has long had the ambition of exporting gas to Europe via Turkey. During Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency (2005-2013), when the relations with the West soured, Iran lost its opportunity of exporting natural gas to European countries, instead, other countries such as Russia, Qatar

As the site of the discovery of crude oil in the Middle East, Iran has had a long track record of petroleum production. It is easy to forget nowadays, but the first oilfield in the region was discovered in 1908 in Masjed Soleyman, located in Iran’s southern province of Khuzestan. Currently, Iran has

In the aftermath of the oil shock of 1973, Iran's oil revenue suddenly quadrupled to nearly $20 billion a year (equivalent to $130 billion in today’s money). Flushed with new petro-dollars, Iran’s then-leader, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, immediately went on a spending spree to build Iran's economic,

The Islamic Republic has long sent thousands of people to visit the battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) in southwestern Iran. These pilgrims, more commonly known as Rahian-e Noor in Persian (the passengers of light), were at the outset part of an ostensibly “grassroot and spontaneous" moveme

In a new IOD survey, a third of Iranian participants have stated that they had experienced power outages in the fall of 2021 when Iran faced sweeping blackouts. The average blackout for the respondents was three hours a day; the data also suggests that 96% of the participants had access to the urban