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Recent disclosures about corruption and resource waste have revived a blunt but unavoidable truth: lifting economic sanctions is a necessary precondition for any meaningful reform in Iran’s oil,…

Iran’s economy has long been shaped by policy inertia, accumulated imbalances, and a persistent reluctance to undertake difficult reforms. For years, experts and policymakers have warned that the…

The latest resolution adopted by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) marks a significant political moment in Iran’s nuclear trajectory, even though its language…

Privatization is intended to be a bridge between a state seeking greater efficiency and a private sector seeking profitable opportunities. But in Iran’s current climate of economic and political…

In recent years, Iran’s foreign exchange market has become a symbol of macroeconomic instability. Frequent currency fluctuations, multiple exchange rates, and a widening gap between official and…

Many failed economic policies are not the result of poor design or weak implementation, but of a deeper disconnect—between economic reasoning and political logic. In Iran, as in many other…

In today’s Iran, both sides of the economic equation feel trapped. Workers complain that with current wages, labor no longer pays off. Employers, on the other hand, find hiring increasingly…

For decades, Iran has alternated between brief periods of calm and long stretches of macroeconomic instability. Except for the 1960s, no era has been free from high inflation, fiscal imbalance and…

The International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook, published in October, paints a far darker picture of global growth than it did a year ago. Whereas forecasts for 2025 were once…

Russia’s recent actions—sending drones into NATO airspace and violating Estonia’s skies—signal a new escalation in its long-term hybrid war against Europe. Following the failed Trump-Putin summit…