Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Iran, June 7, 2019 – In its latest Global Economic Prospects report published Wednesday, the World Bank says Iran’s regime is at the bottom of the list of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Iran is likely to experience an even worse recession this year than previously thought according to the report.
The Washington-based institution that provides loans to countries said it expects Iran’s GDP to shrink by 4.5% this year, a steeper contraction than its earlier estimate of negative 3.6% GDP growth for 2019.
The only country worst that Iran being at bottom of the list is the crisis-riddled Nicaragua.
“The oil industry is an important part of Iran’s economy, and its oil production is clearly going to drop because of the new U.S. sanctions,” said Patrick Clawson, research director for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said on Wednesday.
The International Monetary Fund forecasts that Iran’s economy in 2019 would shrink up to 6%.
The reason for Iran’s economic disaster, according to the World Bank report, is the US sanctions, particularly targeting the oil sector that is choking Iran’s economy.
The World Bank’s new report also said Iran’s year-on-year inflation rate has risen sharply from about 10% in the middle of last year to about 52% in April of this year. It said the depreciation of Iran’s rial since May 2018, when the U.S. announced it would re-impose sanctions on Iran, has contributed to the rising inflation. The rial’s slump versus the dollar in Iran’s unofficial currency market has made dollar-denominated imports more expensive for Iranians.
The Trump administration imposed a total, unilateral ban on Iranian oil exports on May 2 as part of its campaign of “maximum pressure” on Iran to negotiate an end to its perceived malign behaviors.
It had issued sanctions waivers to eight of Iran’s oil customers in November to allow them to keep importing Iranian crude for six months, but later said it would not renew those waivers and now requires all parties to zero such imports.
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