At a recent meeting of the supreme judicial council he argued: “Iran is engaged in a full-scale war. Today’s war is not just a war of missiles; the enemy has come to the conclusion that it cannot force the Iranian nation to surrender through military attacks. At one level the politics of the national broadcaster should not matter, since surveys suggest less than 12% of the country watch it. Economic toll of warThis tension over the national broadcaster coincides with a period of unprecedented economic pressure. These trusts, embedded in the Iranian political system for years, are entities set up to transfer Iranian oil income outside the network of sanctions.