The regime’s two weapons: engineered economic collapse and the politics of execution

The regime’s two weapons: engineered economic collapse and the politics of execution

State-directed crises — from inflation and manipulated statistics to mass executions — are systematically used to crush hope and neutralize dissent, critics and even some officials say. For many Iranians, daily life is dominated by two inseparable realities: a deepening economic crisis and the ever-present threat of execution. What appears, to critics, as chaotic mismanagement instead follows a deliberate pattern. Media analysts, economists and …