Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Feb. 5, 2019 – Citing a letter written and signed by nine members of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament) to regime President Hassan Rouhani, the Siasat-e Rooz daily raised accusations of a new and major case of embezzlement.
“Around $1.45 billion of natural gas sales has not been deposited to the treasury and an additional $1.177 billion in crude oil and natural gas sales have not entered the National Development fund,” the piece reads in part.
Unsurprisingly, massive cases of embezzlement are becoming the new norm for the regime ruling Iran. The state-run daily attempts to shed crocodile tears in saying, “What happened to the $1.45 billion from 2016?”
The Iranian regime has a long history of stealing from ordinary Iranians.
It is worth noting that former Iranian health minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi in his last session of the Council of Deputies made very interesting comments.
“For two years we forced people to go from this to that facility in the summer heat and winter cold, the rains, from this building to that site. These people were seen setting up tents in the streets in their protests seeking their funds returned. However, we took around $3 billion from their accounts and told them nothing. With our heads high we are managing the issue,” he said.
“All the money spent in the Health Plans of these two last administrations, according to our friends in the Planning Organization, the cost has been around $1.5 billion and other numbers stated would be false,” he added in his remarks on January 5th.
Rouhani’s former health minister also provided more alarming numbers.
“Around $3 billion have spent on corrupt financial and credit institutions,” he added.
Corrupt credit institutions are now a source of ongoing protests in cities across the country.
