NCRI – Member of the Legal and Judicial Committee of Iranian regime’s Parliament admitted that smuggled goods are officially imported in Iran by system’s trustees in various forms.
Mohammad Ali Pour-Mokhtar in an interview with state-run ILNA news agency on December 11 said: “Unrealistic declaration of goods stored inside containers are among the forms through which smuggled goods are imported into the consumer market in Iran.”
Referring to the smugglers of goods, he said: “We believe that those who import smuggled goods into the country are a few specific and identified individuals and unfortunately some of them are (insiders and) trusted by the regime’s institutions (system’s trustees) and it seems that the smuggled goods are imported into the country in the name of these people without checking and inspection.”
On December 11, in an article titled “Confronting deprived porters (border porters who carry goods on their backs through mountainous passages to earn a living) and boat-butts (small boat owners) is not the solution without creating jobs,” the state-run Ebtekar newspaper quoting Iranian regime officials reveals considerable confessions from the tongue of the regime officials regarding official and institutionalized smuggling.
The newspaper quotes Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade and writes: “Small boat owners, porters, and cocoon artisans make up only a small part of the smuggling problem in the country while the large volume of smuggling goods that are imported into the country certainly has a foothold beyond these poor people… Fighting porters and small boat owners in the current situation is a clear example of stealing the minaret before digging wells.”
The newspaper further quotes Majid Reza Hariri, deputy of Iran-China Chamber of Commerce and writes: “Considering the figures given by official organizations, the amount of smuggled goods into the country is about $15 billion. Our official imports is about $50 billion, and according to the figures, manufactured goods including vehicles imported into the country amounts to $5 billion. As a rule, smuggler imports consumables manufactured goods. This means the smugglers import goods three times the official tradespeople.
In addition, quoting Naser Mousavi Largani, member of the Economy Commission of the regime’s Parliament, the same article reveals, “When we have $25 billion smuggled goods in the country, it means that this phenomenon is beyond the scope of deprived porters and small boat owners and there must be a big mafia behind it.”
