Eye for Iran | Ep 44 | Iran ensures military gets paid, people struggle
Ordinary Iranians are bearing unprecedented economic pain as their Islamic government's row with its hated enemies Israel and the United States ramps up and Tehran prioritizes military spending to shore up defense and its regional clout.
Iran implemented a 200 percent increase in military spending for the Persian year beginning this month and will aim to boost revenue through higher taxes despite a big deficit and a moribund currency besetting the economy.
According to Mahdi Ghodsi, an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, and Mohamad Machine Chian, a senior…
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