Dr. Raghfar: Iran’s Only Path to Salvation is the Exit of Military and Friday Imam Offices from the Economy

Dr. Raghfar, an economist, believes that Iran’s only path to salvation is the exit of military and Friday imam offices from the economy.

Dr. Hossein Raghfar is a reformist economist, professor of economics, and member of the faculty at Alzahra University. He is also a former Iranian national footballer. Dr. Raghfar has conducted research in the field of poverty and has authored works in the field of social welfare.

He warned about the grim future of Iran’s economy and said: “The government, in order to compensate for these looted resources from the banks, has again started to raise the prices of foreign currency and coins. They melted down 76 tons of the country’s gold, converted it into coins, and handed it over to the banks so they could sell them at very high prices so that they could only compensate for the thefts that have occurred in our banks.”

This system, in which obligations outside our country in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and other countries are expanding every day and must be funded, makes it clear that the country’s existing foreign exchange resources cannot meet the interests of five or six countries. Therefore, every day it is extracted from the people’s throats so that they can pursue objectives outside the country.

These resources belong to this society and should be invested here and for the people. From now on, we are saying that under current conditions there is a complete solution, the most important of which is the exit of military, security, clerics, houses, headquarters of Friday imams, foundations of the oppressed and martyrs, other foundations, and the executive headquarters of the Imam’s decree from the country’s economy. They are given foreign currency, loans, and credits and have no obligations in return.”

He further added in his remarks: “There is no opportunity to list only the loans and foreign exchange credits that these individuals have taken from banks in recent years and had no obligations in return. Throughout the war in 1986, the country’s total foreign exchange revenues were 7 billion dollars, which managed both the war and society. How is it that today 80 billion in the country’s foreign exchange revenues is not enough to meet these gentlemen’s needs? What has really happened? These are resources that have left the country and we are faced with capital flight. Corrupt banks are the cancerous tumor of the country’s economy; therefore, a very dark future awaits the government.”

At the end of his remarks, he paused momentarily with a heavy heart and then continued: “More than anything else, I am concerned about the territorial integrity of Iran.”