While people from different social strata hold protests and strikes on a daily basis, demanding return of their money stolen by the financial institutions linked to the Revolutionary Guards and other state entities, and yet receive no response but lie, humiliation, and oppression, new aspects of the institutionalized corruption keep popping up amid the clashes between regime’s rival bands.
In the latest confessions of this kind, regime’s MP ‘Nader Ghazipour’ points to the case related to Hamid Baghaei, former vice-president during Ahmadinejad’s presidency, saying “300 billion tomans of public wealth entrusted to Khane-Iranian has been defalcated.”
State-funded from 2010, Khane-Iranian is a set of so-called sociocultural centers set up in different countries during Ahmadinejad’s presidency.
“703 Bahar-e-Azadi gold coins (each worth $333), 1,842 half gold coins, more than 2.1 billion tomans in cash plus another 45.4 million tomans belonging to Presidential Office were found in Baghaei’s house. They claimed they were going to give the funds back after improving their relations with Rouhani’s government. (State-run Entekhab website, October 30, 2017)
Meanwhile, Khamenei’s Kayhan newspaper has highlighted another corruption case on October 31. Pointing to one of defendants in Educators Reserve Fund case who has run away with 500 billion tomans in debt, the newspaper quotes a member of regime parliament’s Education and Research Commission as saying “the amount of violations is estimated to be more than 14-15 billion thousand tomans. More than 20 were arrested and put behind bars with regard to this case, but now they’re free on bail, having committed to return the money they owe. A number of them, including Mr. M, have escaped the country. Mr.M’s lawyer has said that he’s planning for his client’s return to the country so he could settle his 400-500 billion-toman debt.”
Fearing the consequences of the situation, former regime MP ‘Ahmad Tavakoli’ has written a letter to Rohani’s vice-president Eshaq Jahangiri, saying “you can’t both chant resistance economy and at the same time act in favor of tax evaders. We should keep in mind that the share belonging to children scavenging waste containers is being swallowed by tax evaders.” (State-run Mehr news agency, October 31, 2017)
Meanwhile, state-run Kayhan newspaper on October 31 once again reveals the long-dated scourge of state-sponsored smuggling, saying “free zones are the best places for smuggling and excessive imports. Smuggling is a scourge that has crippled the country’s industry while its main cause is racketeering by those who are involved in illegal imports.”
While meager salaries of workers, retirees, and teachers have not been paid for months, state-run Khorasan newspaper confesses “Bank Mellat and Bank Eghtesad-Novin have paid their customers 3,700 and 287 billion tomans, respectively, in excess of interest on their deposits. Bank Eghtesad_Novin claims it has paid more than 778 billion tomans as surplus profits in addition to interest on deposits last year, which is three times higher than the bank’s 2015 surplus.”
It’s more than obvious that a four percent minority, to which regime’s sham presidential candidate ‘Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf’ referred in one of his debates, have at their disposal the entire properties and wealth belonging to Iranian people.
It’s quite natural that beside the palaces built out of plundering, there is countless number of shanties in which poverty and misery rule. And these slums of misery and humiliation won’t go anywhere unless those castles are razed down to the ground; an inevitable fate the people and resistance of Iran have put all their efforts to make it happen.
Source » ncr-iran