Where Did Irans billions disappear to?

A mystery in Iran: where did billions of dollars "disappear"?

A mystery in Iran following a letter sent earlier this week by Ahsan Khandozi, the Minister of Economy in the outgoing government, to interim President Mohammad Mohbar before President Masoud Pazakhshian took office (pictured). According to the letter, the state treasury that serves the government has only 10,500 billion tomans, i.e. 170 million dollars. This amount is equal to Iran's revenue from oil exports in a single day.

This figure is surprising since according to official publications the value of Iran's oil exports last spring jumped by about 35% to 12 billion dollars. In other words, the money is there, but even in Iran they ask where it is and what it should be used for if the government does not have access to it...

One of the newspapers wrote: "The previous government kept claiming that it was able to increase oil sales and the export of other products many times over, but despite all these claims, it provided the treasury with 170 million dollars. Here we have to ask, where are the fruits and proofs of all those revenues and claims of great economic success?"

(Doron Peskin)