Ali Alfoneh

The Islamic Republic is incapable of attending to the economic problems of the Iranian state unless Iran manages to do something about it.

the corruption, the rampant corruption, which is making the country as such poorer and poorer, but a very small part of Iranians who are engaged in sanction busting and engaged in smuggling Iran's oil

and selling it in the black market internationally, but nevertheless managed to fill their pockets.

Unless Iran attends the issue of corruption at home and also reaches an agreement with the U.S., the Islamic Republic is not capable of solving Iran's economic problems.

The Islamic Republic's main export has been oil and to some extent, smaller stand gas products.

And this money is not reaching the Iranian state as much as before, due to several reasons.

One of them is the US sanctions, which has made it very difficult for foreign buyers of Iran's oil to purchase the oil, simply because there are no banking links between Iranian banks and the international banking system.

So even if there is a buyer, an international buyer,

They cannot transfer the money through international banking system.

The transfer either needs to take place through Chinese or Russian banks and then connected to Iran.

This has left only one serious buyer in the international market for Iran's oil, and that's China.

They can negotiate the price of Iranian oil even lower than it is in the global oil markets.

What makes things even worse, you have the smugglers, a new class of Iranian merchants, usually connected with the Revolutionary Guard, who have their own shipping companies and they are transferring and selling Iran's oil

to the market, to the Chinese buyers.

And they pocket huge sums of money in commission for their services.

no longer having hijab patrols, patrolling the streets of the big cities, arresting women just because they are not sufficiently covered or not covered enough as according to the prescriptions of the government.

That actually managed to calm the country for a while.

But at the same time, no longer enforcing the hijab legislation also taught the Iranians a lesson, and that is that if you fight for a specific cause, the regime will make a retreat from its previous positions.

They say that the government is not listening to our voice when we talk with them normally, so we have to take our protests to the streets.

The number of people going to the streets does not even amount to 5% of Iran's total population.