A top Iranian budget official has revealed that President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration’s faces a huge budget deficit this year, despite official assurances. Rahim Mombeini, the deputy head of Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization, whose boss was recently sacked by President Ebrahim Raisi, said Saturday that Iran’s budget deficit for the previous Iranian year –which ended on March 20 – was about 8,000 trillion rials (about $16 billion in today’s exchange rates). The figure is twice as much as the budget deficit of previous years,…
Iran Faces A Huge Budget Deficit It Tries To Conceal – ایران اینترنشنال
