A new record was set for the government of the more deprived
Although state media write about controlling inflation and reducing its intensity, the newspaper Jomhouri Eslami has reported that the annual inflation rate for August 2022 for households in the country has reached 415 percent, which shows an increase of 1 percentage point compared to the previous month.
The newspaper added that according to the Iranian Statistics Center, the point-to-point inflation rate in August this year reached 522 percent, meaning that households in the country spent, on average, 522 percent more than in August 2021 to purchase the same set of goods and services.