Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Feb. 4, 2019 – One of the phenomena that dictatorships share in their last phase of their rule is the fight between their factions. In Iran, many officials and high ranking authorities expose the embezzlement, money launderings, smugglings and the corruption of members of their rivaling faction, sometimes worth millions of even billions of dollars. An example of these cases is the head of the Iranian regime’s judiciary Sadegh Amoli Larijani, who has 63 personal bank accounts with more than $2 million profits per month. While Larijani himself is head of one of the regime’s mafia, he told a group of the Iranian regime’s prosecutors in a meeting on confronting the smuggling of goods and profiteering, “Regrettably, some people are now smuggling meat, sheep and such. Some dealers buy meet based on government prices and hoard all the meat in the market, but sell it at a higher cost. We should stand firm against them. Our prosecutors must confront this smuggling.”
In the same manner, the Iranian Regime’s Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’I announced that economic lawbreakers are “mofsed-e fil arz” – Mofsed-e filarz means those who have spread corruption on Earth, a broadly defined capital crime under the Iranian regime’s criminal code. According to the Iranian Regime’s so-called Islamic laws, the punishment for this crime is the death penalty. On January 28, the state-run news agency ISNA quoted Mohseni-Eje’I, “We stressed that prosecutors must stand firm against lawbreakers. Many economic lawbreakers can be a mofsed-e fil arz.”
But the question is that who are those smugglers whose acts result in skyrocketing of prices in the market and push the Iranian people under the poverty line?
Alireza Ebadi, the representative of the Iranian Regime’s supreme leader in Khorasan Razavi province, also revealed another side of systematic smuggling in Iran to blow the other faction. On January 28, the state-run website Ghatreh quoted Alireza Ebadi, “We should block smuggling in our official organizations. We have witnessed a vast importation of smuggled goods in border regions in recent years. This amount of smuggling cannot be brought to the country through illegal crossings using camel. These smugglings are passing through customs.”
In parallel, on January 26, the state-run newspaper Kayhan, in a blow to the regime’s president Rouhani, revealed some aspects of livestock smuggling, “The question is that how does livestock smuggling go on so easily and under which circumstances? Is it true that legal organizations have hand in that? And if it is not true, how is it possible to send two million livestock outside the country without being caught by controlling organizations?”
The Iranian regime has time and again executed its pawns like the Sultan of Bitumen, Sultan of Coin, etc. to extinguish the anger of public opinion while helping the main perpetrators and top officials in the shadow to evade accountability and public outrage.
Now the high price of meat in Iran’s market is one of the hot topics of Iran news, as it can be seen under news titles like “The meat is flying away from Iranians’ tables.” The Iranian regime is trying to accuse some low-ranking merchants for the increase of meat prices showing a fake target to the people in the society.
But the fact is that the clue leads us to some high-ranking officials and governmental institutions and organizations. As an example, Rajaee port facilitates the release of 1,700 containers on a daily basis.
Moreover, in addition to legal customs, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) uses its own ports for import and export of smugglings, drugs, weapons, and ammunition to its proxies in the region.
So it is clear for the Iranian people that the Judiciary punishes low-ranking smugglers every day to save the real perpetrators.
