In a joint letter, 61 Iranian economists and university lecturers across the country wrote an open letter to the people of Iran. While counting the hollow promises by the regime’s president Ebrahim Raisi about the economic crisis and about its consequence.
The signatories of this letter are all linked to the regime and wholeheartedly try to preserve it. Despite portraying only a small portion of reality, they warn officials that society is on the verge of an explosion, and they see the change on the “horizo”
Raisi’s administration proclaimed they have a 7,000-page reform plan and they would realize 5% economic growth, create one million jobs and housing units a year, reduce the unemployment rate, and eradicate absolute poverty.
There are billions of dollars of unnecessary expenses in the budget used for the nuclear projects, and funding proxy forces in the middle east their permanent or temporary removal would seriously affect the people’s lives and their economic situation.
Prior to this, the subsidies and the preferential rate allocated to import flour, the prices of bread, pasta, and cakes skyrocketed. The government and the parliament removed the preferential rate allocated to consumer goods.
As a result of low economic growth, Iran’s share in the world economy in the same period has halved and has decreased from one percent to about 0.5 percent.
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