Iranian regime economic crisis targets paper market

The deteriorating conditions of the Iranian regime’s economy has spread to the country’s paper market and left many publishing companies bankrupt, the state-run ILNA news agency reported.
“The crisis in the paper bazaar increases every day and affects all printing and publishing sections in the market,” a state-run media outlet wrote.
“The catastrophic conditions of the paper market has left college book publishers facing a crisis threatening all of their business, a status similar to other publishers,” said a member of the executive board of numerous companies in the mullahs’ regime. “The price of each line of paper now stands at 760,000 rials (around $57) and there is no publisher that can avoid such costs to print books. Following wheat, being the Iranian people’s main diet, paper is considered one of the most fundamental products. Unfortunately, the paper industry has been abandoned and due to mismanagement, or I should better say lack of management, this crisis is growing by the day.”
Describing them as mafia, this regime official referred to the mullahs’ factions and added, “I have information that currently there is enough paper in our warehouses. In such conditions, the existence of a black market, a mafia economy, hoarding in this bazaar and the lack of supervision over this issue has caused prices to reach such high figures and those who are looking to make a profit seek to increase prices more than ever before.”