Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 6:33:51 GMT
The regime of the ayatollahs seems to have overcome the last and to date the most extensive social protest in its forty years of existence. The question is how long the system will be able to resist the rampant deterioration of living conditions, external harassment and the erosion of its legitimacy. The trigger for the revolt was the % increase in the price of fuel (from to cents per liter), with the purpose of raising an additional billion dollars annually and leveling the fiscal balance. Even after the price increase, Iran will continue to enjoy the cheapest gasoline in the world, behind only Venezuela and Sudan. The other controversial measure has been fuel rationing.
The high consumption of this product has been a constant concern of the Supreme Guide, Ali Jameini , who has followed the evolution of the market very carefully, according to some Iraq Telegram Number Data information. His repeated invocations of citizen self-control have not worked: Iran consumes ten times more fuel than Turkey. Consumption subsidies represented one and a half points of GDP in - The restrictions imposed amount to liters per month per private vehicle . Some analysts wonder why these measures have been introduced now and not waited for the legislative elections in February. BROOKINGS analyst Ali Fathollah-Nejad, of Iranian origin, assures that the government had problems securing the payrolls of public officials.
A possible non-payment would have had even more burdensome consequences (). The government had promised to compensate for the rise in prices by redistributing part of the income among the million households ( million citizens) considered most vulnerable. This commitment did not convince a large part of the population, among other things, because no measure has been adopted that affects the privileged castes of the system, in particular the Guardians of the Revolution and its paramilitary arm, Al Quds, whose extensive and substantial activities are practically tax-free.
The high consumption of this product has been a constant concern of the Supreme Guide, Ali Jameini , who has followed the evolution of the market very carefully, according to some Iraq Telegram Number Data information. His repeated invocations of citizen self-control have not worked: Iran consumes ten times more fuel than Turkey. Consumption subsidies represented one and a half points of GDP in - The restrictions imposed amount to liters per month per private vehicle . Some analysts wonder why these measures have been introduced now and not waited for the legislative elections in February. BROOKINGS analyst Ali Fathollah-Nejad, of Iranian origin, assures that the government had problems securing the payrolls of public officials.
A possible non-payment would have had even more burdensome consequences (). The government had promised to compensate for the rise in prices by redistributing part of the income among the million households ( million citizens) considered most vulnerable. This commitment did not convince a large part of the population, among other things, because no measure has been adopted that affects the privileged castes of the system, in particular the Guardians of the Revolution and its paramilitary arm, Al Quds, whose extensive and substantial activities are practically tax-free.