I joined young leaders at some of Silicon Valley’s major tech companies for the “Tech x Future of Iran” summit at Uber HQ in San Francisco.
Iran’s future after the Islamic Republic is very bright, driven by the capabilities of Iranians at home and abroad.
My fellow compatriots,
The Islamic Republic’s attempt to raise fuel prices has once again exposed its incompetence and the deep structural dysfunction of Iran’s energy sector under this regime.
While the Islamic Republic squanders the country’s resources on foreign terrorists and domestic repression, regime officials and their cronies compete to plunder the nation’s wealth. Meanwhile, the regime’s gross mismanagement has pushed families to the breaking point and driven Iranians deeper into poverty. Forcing higher fuel prices on the people is an unforgivable mistake and a profound betrayal.
Fuel prices cannot be compared with those in other countries when Iranians earn their incomes in heavily devalued rials and live below the poverty line.
Fuel and energy are managed as a matter of routine, without constant crisis, in nearly every country in the world, including many with far fewer resources than Iran.
On one side, the IRGC’s smuggling mafia traffics tens of millions of liters of Iran’s resources every day through tanker trucks, pipelines, and ports. On the other, the automotive mafia forces Iranians to buy poorly made, fuel-inefficient cars. Unable to solve the problem it has created, this criminal cult uses its propaganda apparatus to shift the blame for fuel shortages onto the people, portraying ordinary Iranians as responsible for rising consumption and fuel smuggling.
The Islamic Republic is an incompetent, corrupt, and anti-Iranian regime. It is itself the root cause of this dysfunction and will never be capable of fixing it.
The only way to save Iran and end this destructive cycle is to bring down this regime in its entirety and establish an effective national government. The Iran Prosperity Project has developed clear plans to bring fuel production and consumption into balance. These plans draw on proven international best practices and Iran’s own national experience in managing its energy resources, and will be implemented during the transition following the fall of the regime.
Long live Iran, Reza Pahlavi