Mohsen Hashemi’s Note on the Severe Economic Situation of the Country

Mohsen Hashemi’s Note on the Dire Economic Situation of the Country

Mohsen Hashemi, former head of the Tehran City Council, wrote in a note about the dire economic situation of the country, stating that the devaluation of the national currency from the Qajar era to the beginning of the thirteenth government is less than its devaluation in these two years.

Mr. Hashemi, in this note published on Monday in the Etemad newspaper in Tehran, stated that the government, which aimed to increase the value of the national currency, received the dollar at 23,000 tomans during the election, and before reaching the second year, the free market dollar has reached about 50,000 tomans.

He also, while referring to the numerous economic and production-related namings by the leader of the Islamic Republic in Iran, without explicitly mentioning the leader’s responsibility in economic matters, described the government’s directives regarding these namings as performative.