Iran Regime's MP Confesses to Widespread Corruption Within the Regime
- Thursday, 09 February 2017 02:14
NCRI - According to terrorist Quds Force’s new agency on February 7, former Iranian regime’s MP Ahmad Tavakkoli has said that “the revolution (regime) has been gripped by aristocracy and self-indulgence, which has given rise to too many corruptions.”
Tavakkoli pointed out that corruption has now turned systematic. “In a systematic corruption, the entities responsible for dealing with corruption are themselves affected by it”, said Tavakkoli.
He then tries to manage his remark somehow, saying “however, this doesn’t mean that the whole system is corrupt. Although there’s a degree of corruption within the judiciary, Article-90 commission, parliament, police department and supreme audit court, all of which are responsible for fighting corruption, but there are honorable people working there, too. Nevertheless, the system has failed to defend itself properly, and this brings about corruption.”
“Unfortunately we have a fragile economy,” Tavakkoli added, “it can’t sustain pressures and our economic growth rate is dependent on oil revenues.”
He later added that “until 2012, the country’s petrochemical industry was used to making huge profits since they were provided with very cheap feed gas, so that they didn’t plan to develop their supply chain and were nearly involved in selling raw materials.”
“Between 2007 and 2012”, Tavakkoli added, “their net profit was three billion 330 million dollars, while paying 135 million dollars, nearly 4 percent, of that amount as tax.”
Tavakkoli said that “corruption has spread to many officials, and we won’t be able to achieve our objectives unless we figure out what to do about it.”
