While millions of Iranian families are trapped in a deepening crisis of poverty and economic instability, the clerical regime is busy diverting billions in national wealth to its ideological institutions. A report compiled from state-run media on June 10, 2025, exposes a government whose priorities are fundamentally at odds with the needs of its people. This is not a case of mismanagement; it is a deliberate policy to fund religious propaganda and secure the regime’s power at the direct expense of the Iranian populace.
The central question now being asked by the public, as highlighted in the media, captures the national outrage: “Should national wealth be used to turn the wheels of development or the wheels of the government’s religious propaganda?” For the ruling establishment, the answer is clear, and it is a betrayal of the Iranian people.
Siphoning national wealth for clerical cronies
Under Ebrahim Raisi’s administration, the Oil Ministry ceased to be a specialized national body and has instead become a slush fund for the regime’s clerical favorites. According to a report from the state-run Ruydad 24 website, recent allocations include a staggering “100 billion toman contribution to the seminary of Gholamreza Ghasemian and the allocation of 500 billion tomans for the development of religious schools in Qom.”
This lavish spending on non-governmental religious bodies comes as workers struggle with poverty wages and retirees protest in the streets for their unpaid pensions. The regime’s own officials are forced to admit the consequences of their policies. Abbas Moqtadaei, a member of the Majlis (parliament), stated that Iran’s long-suffering farmers “are paying the price for managerial incompetence and slow decision-making.” The regime is knowingly sacrificing its people’s well-being to prop up its ideological base.
A confession of failure from within
The desperation of the Iranian people has reached such a fever pitch that even regime insiders can no longer ignore it. Majlis deputy Abbas Moqtadaei made a stunning admission about the public’s anxiety, confessing, “Workers and retirees call at two or three in the morning and talk about their worries.” These forced confessions from officials who are complicit in the system causing this pain only add insult to injury.
This personal anxiety is a direct result of systemic chaos. As the state-run newspaper Arman-e Emrooz bluntly put it on June 10, “The Iranian economy lacks any predictability.” For four decades, the regime’s unscientific, ad-hoc policies and the constant interference of non-economic institutions loyal to the Supreme Leader have destroyed any chance of stability. No one in Iran knows what the price of the dollar will be tomorrow or what new decree will threaten their livelihood. This engineered uncertainty is the foundation of Iran’s economic crisis.
The system is structurally bankrupt
The crisis is not temporary; it is a deep and structural bankruptcy. Valiollah Seif, the former head of Iran’s Central Bank, exposed the rot at the heart of the financial system. According to the Jahan-e Sanat newspaper, Seif revealed that “Banks whose assets are not properly valued are struggling with liquidity problems, and the gap between their income and expenses is widening day by day.”
This is the outcome of a system where, as the report notes, “accountability, oversight, and transparency have been replaced by rent-seeking, corruption, and incompetence.” The banking sector, which was supposed to be the “engine of development,” has instead become a primary obstacle to economic dynamism. The regime’s entire economic structure is designed not for growth, but for plunder.
A regime at war with its people
While the regime diverts the nation’s oil wealth to expand its network of religious institutions, the people of Iran are left to face poverty, instability, and the collapse of public services, their cries for justice echoing in the streets. This deliberate inversion of priorities, driven by the regime’s singular focus on self-preservation, has not only stripped it of its ability to govern but has also rendered it completely illegitimate. For the overwhelming majority of Iranians, the path to a prosperous and free nation is clear, making the overthrow of the clerical regime the highest patriotic desire to secure Iran’s national interests.