Iran’s Statistical Lockout and Its Economic Implications

For years, Iran’s Central Bank has refrained from releasing inflation statistics, fearing that their publication might exacerbate inflationary pressures. However, contrary to this belief, the actual data indicates that withholding these statistics hasn’t curbed inflation rates.

This practice, which became commonplace during Hassan Rouhani’s presidency, persists under the current government’s leadership. Recently, the ‘Tasnim’ news agency shed light on what it termed a ‘statistical lockout’ orchestrated by Iran’s Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, the…