Iranian regime authorities are hard-pressed to answer their own questions
Hard questions Warnings about the future of the Iranian regime are abundant among Iranian officials these days, while its state-run talks about the “danger of explosion,” the “poverty pit,” and “competency crisis.” Arman newspaper, close to the so-called moderate faction of regime president Hassan Rouhani, wrote on December 23: “Currently, only the private-public companies are working. Thus, many job opportunities are destroyed and socially, a powder keg is created that threatens to explode at any moment.” Public-private ( khosulati ) has become a distinct word in the Persian language which consists of the beginning of the word private and the end of the public. If it existed in the English language, it would be something like “prilic” or “pubate.” Thanks to the widespread corruption in the so-called privatization process of the formerly publicly owned companies in Iran, the media and opposition figures invented this word combination to better describe the situati...