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Iranian MP: Economic conditions breaking people's backs Long lines of people seeking to purchase meat in Iran Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 30, 2019  - As social crises grow, infighting in the ranks of Iran's regime increases. Iran’s Majlis (parliament), during its public session, was another scene of clashes between regime’s factions. Majlis member Mohsen Biglari addressed regime President Hassan Rouhani, while also acknowledging the dire  economic  and  social  situation stemming from the mullahs’ in capability. “Mr. Rouhani, please consider the economic and industrial situation of the country. People are under heavy economic pressure; quit referring to any social problem to the [U.S.] sanctions, we all know that 80% of the crises are due to mismanagement. With a 300% inflation rate, the 450,000 rials subsidies won’t help people,” Biglari said. “Mr. President, farmers, livestock farmers, employees, workers and teachers and m...

Iran: How hard-earned U.S. dollars are  smuggled out of the country More money is being smuggled outside of Iran Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 31, 2019  - In May, Hossein Mirshojaeean, former deputy minister of economy in Iran, said that about $30 billion of the total $40 billion that Iran made through exports has never returned to Iran, neither as imported goods nor as money. More recently, according to Eghtesad Online, an Iranian website specializing in economic news, Iran’s director of the Central Bank reported that about $18.5 billion from last year’s $40 billion in exports have returned to Iran. While even taking the comments of Iran’s Central Bank director into account leaves out the fate of 11.5 billion dollars, other governmental statistics suggest that more than 70 percent of the earned money through exports never returns to Iran. No need to say that the major problem here is the very same governmental institutions that function with im...

Brian Hooke: Officials of the Islamic Republic are misinforming about the sanctions against the Iranian people. The failure of the 5+ 1 atomic agreement shows more than anything else that the system of Velayat-e Faqih neither wants nor can be taken on a path of social prosperity. By Baha Mehr My  article first published in The Herald report On Monday, Brian Hooke, head of the Special Operations Section at the US State Department, insisted that the purpose of US sanctions is not to exacerbate humanitarian trade, including food and medicine, and that the Iranian government is giving false information to people. Following his trip to India, he is now on a visit to Luxembourg with European officials in a press conference on Monday with media outlets that will take the position of the United States on a new round of sanctions that will resume in a few weeks. It was explained. He argued that in the context of new sanctions, the exceptions that the United States consider...

Merchants in several Iranian cities go on strike IRAN NEWS 10/8/2018 Reported by PMOI/MEK Iran, Oct. 8, 2018  - On Monday, merchants in several Iranian cities went on strike and refused to open for business in an extension of ongoing protests against the regime of Tehran. The strike, which was preplanned and widely distributed across social media channels, is in protest to increasing prices and high inflation rates. Oct 8-Tebriz, Iran-Bazaar merchants are joining the nationwide strike According to reports obtained by the PMOI/MEK network inside Iran, until noon local time, markets in at least 36 cities had joined the strike. The protest movement comprises some of Iran’s major cities including in Mashhad, Tabriz, Kermanshah, Gorgan, Zanjan, Baneh, Marivan, Tabriz, Sanandaj, Saqqez, Abadan, Urumiyeh, Zahedan, Arak, Kerman, Isfahan, and Sardasht. Oct 8-Tebriz, Iran-Street shopowners join the nationwide strike In Tehr...