Why every economic crisis in Iran becomes politicalIran’s economy can be explained very simply, without heavy jargon. Ordinary people become poorer, while privileged networks either profit directly or, at minimum, survive the shock far better than everyone else. So the talk of a second, deeper shock returned — and this was the point at which a technocratic project became a political crisis. The state is effectively closing its fiscal gap by shrinking the real wage of employees and wage earners. It is evidence that society was already primed, and that a rupture inside the economic order opened a corridor.