Iran’s Shadow Economy: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Western media frames sanctions as tools for collapse, yet 2026 data confirms they reorganize rather than destroy. Beneath the formal economy lies a parallel state architecture—invisible to mainstream analysts—worth hundreds of billions. This dual-state system is now wired into the BRICS financial infrastructure, rendering the…
The Formal-Sector Cost of Iran Sanctions is a research brief showing that repeated sanctions shocks have measurably reduced capability formation in Iran’s formal manufacturing sector, while parts of the parastatal economy appear to have absorbed much of the substitution. The study also finds a partial post-2024 currency shift in trade settlement, but argues that this does…
