{"id":9735,"date":"2018-04-16T18:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=9735"},"modified":"2018-04-16T21:07:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T01:07:37","slug":"irans-economic-crisis-results-from-corruption-not-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/9735\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Economic Crisis Results From Corruption Not Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s currency dropped more than a fifth of its value since 2017 and now at an all-time low, mainly due to the Iranian Regime\u2019s war-mongering and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian rial, which is now<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>valued\u00a0at 60,000 rials per US dollar, and the overall rocky economy will likely prove the end for the Iranian Regime.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, you can see how scared the Regime is by the prospect as they\u2019ve artificially fixed the exchange rate at 42,000 rials to the dollar, imposing limits on currency exchanges, and are threatening to execute money changers who differ from this.<\/p>\n<h4>BRINGING DOWN THE REGIME<\/h4>\n<p>An anti-regime uprising spread through the Iranian populace in late 2017, following the release of a draft budget that would increase military spending, whilst slashing subsidies for the poorest in society.<\/p>\n<p>It started as an economic protest, but quickly spread into an uprising against the Regime as a whole, because all of the problems that the Iranian people face are exacerbated by the Regime.<br \/>\nIt didn\u2019t help that, despite the protests, the bill passed virtually unchanged in March, which gave new life to the protests.<\/p>\n<h4>BLAMING OTHERS<\/h4>\n<p>The Iranian Regime is not used to somber reflections on its role in problems facing the Iranian people, which is why they chose to blame the Regime\u2019s enemies in a statement last Tuesday and why they continue to blame other countries for limiting their access to sanctions relief.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, nonsense. International companies and banks are reluctant to invest in Iran because they don\u2019t want their money used to fund terrorist militias like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.<\/p>\n<h4>THE IRAN DEAL<\/h4>\n<p>Speaking of sanctions relief, Donald Trump\u2019s deadline for fixing the flaws in the nuclear deal is now less than a month away and it is expected that he will pull the US out of the accord and reinstate sanctions on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>We can predict this because the talks have gone almost nowhere and Trump has been stacking his cabinet with people like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo who are well known for their tough stances on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested that there would likely be strong US sanctions on Iran in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIf the president doesn\u2019t sign the certification, the sanctions snap back into place. I do think the primary and secondary sanctions would have an important impact on the Iranian economy, and that\u2019s something he\u2019s thinking about and balancing as he makes his decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is important because if sanctions are reinstated immediately, then it would heavily impact on the Iranian Regime and cut off the majority of the funding for their oppressive security forces. This would, in turn, help the Iranian people to stand up against the mullahs and bring about regime change in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Iran&#8217;s currency dropped more than a fifth of its value since 2017 and now at an all-time low, mainly due to the Iranian Regime\u2019s war-mongering <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/9735\/\" title=\"Iran&#8217;s Economic Crisis Results From Corruption Not Sanctions\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9738,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions\/9738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}