What I am Reading Today

From one of the Iranian analysts who consistently places a good product on the page. Transliteration can be a bit clunky at times from Persian, so I cleaned up around the edges of the grammar in 2-3 spots, but didn't change context of the thoughts of the analyst.  I do not engage intellectual dishonesty in copy-edit.

"Today, news reports indicate that gasoline is being offered in Kerman province at a price of 78,000 tomans per liter. The excuse for this is fuel shortage and preventing smuggling schemes, although the highly suspicious plan to delegate broad powers to governors by Masoud Pezeshkian also.

It has not been ineffective in this process.

Decisions such as offering gasoline at the refinery cost price, even if they have economic justification on paper, are no longer merely economic decisions in wartime conditions; they are directly tied to national security. A society that is simultaneously dealing with war, inflation, livelihood pressures, and it faces uncertainty about the future and has a much lower capacity to withstand sudden shocks.

Please note that the experience of the gasoline price increase in 2019, or even more importantly, the currency rate liberalization shock in December that (gave the main pretext to the enemy for inciting the people), shows how an economic issue can turn into a political and security crisis at the national level within a few hours.

But today's matter is even more sensitive; because Iran is not in normal conditions and has gone through two periods of direct war with America and Israel, and internally we are witnessing the implementation of policies to create chaos and internal disruption by the enemy and the country's security and geopolitical environment remains fragile. In such an environment, every economic dissatisfaction can turn into raw material for psychological operations, social provocation, and the exacerbation of internal divisions.

This concern is not merely hypothetical. We have seen how with the increase in the level.

The dissatisfaction of the people quickly led to the hand of the foreign enemy appearing and turning these disatisfactions into a painful internal turmoil. 

 Therefore, if economic shock once again creates an atmosphere of street unrest, the danger of violent groups, armed networks, or terrorist elements entering the scene is very serious; especially now that the political current,  The Western-oriented faction and the coup current have faced heavy defeats in their efforts to seize power in the country.  This is where the matter becomes more dangerous: some leaders of liberal Western-oriented political currents are contemplating repeating the crimes of the 1980s.

Aligned with America's pressure policy, they can exploit real discontent  people  can use to increase political pressure on the establishment, so that perhaps they can revive their failed coup and implement such decisions—for whatever reason—gives this faction the opportunity to act in alignment with the enemy; because the experience of the past 50 years has shown that political and media exploitation.

This bunch, from internal crises, is a completely normal matter. I recall that the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, after entering the armed phase in 1981, initiated a wave of bombings and assassinations in Iran that resulted in the martyrdom of more than 17,000 women, men, and children in the country.

  

Therefore, the issue is only the "price is not gasoline; the issue is the timing of implementing such an economic policy.  In every part of the world, even in America itself, an increase in fuel prices creates a crisis in its own right, let alone the shocking implementation of it in the wartime atmosphere of Iran, which is in no way rational.

These dangerous decisions could even create an internal front of chaos from the very body that creates a populace that is precisely what a foreign enemy would desire.

In the past, we have repeatedly witnessed how the economic costs of such misguided government decisions lead to crises, chaos, destruction, and the burning of banks, and so on... which in reality, the costs of these crises themselves are several dozen times the profit relative to this.

The increase in price will benefit the government. The discussion about sending a signal of weakness to the enemy has its own place.

In any case, after the leadership's entry into the debate on changing Iran's governance structure and re-consolidating power following the widespread assassination of prominent military commanders and some politicians, the danger of greater alignment by the coup faction with the enemy to create chaos inside and neutralizing Iran's power consolidation was clearly evident, and the government should not play foolish games behind the backs of these individuals with unreasonable actions. Especially when the plan, instead of being implemented nationwide, is only carried out in one province, it creates additional effects beyond all the negative impacts mentioned above. I hope Iran's leadership intervenes.

The media must also fully address this issue; of course, provided they haven't already become dependent on the reconciliation and liberal factions beforehand, in which case they have no right to speak out against these plans, but rather must whitewash these plans on the orders of their masters.

Therefore, the issue is only the "price

I recall that the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, after entering the armed p

Now too, we clearly see the hand of the intelligence services and the treasonous opposition current in the abduction and murder of personnel forces whom they consider paropposition current in the abduction and murder of personnel forces w

In the end, I emphasize that this game is the behind-the-scenes current of the coup in the country, which is hidden behind a secret plan under various pretexts. We must see who prioritizes such decision-making.

Ya Ali Shahrivar 1405

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