According to Les Echos, the report was prepared by the regime’s economists and submitted to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at the end of September.
Some of the experts preparing the report work at the regime’s central bank, the economic ministry and the oil ministry. They stressed that sanctions are creating pressures on the Iranian economy.
The French paper said that the Iranian regime’s oil industry is under pressure after the exodus of large-scale European and Asian oil companies as well as restrictions on gasoline imports, which is forcing the regime to resort to smuggling.
The skyrocketing foreign currency prices is also an outcome of these sanctions and in contrast to the claims by the regime’s banking sector officials, this deeply-rooted problem cannot be solved in the short term through the injection of dollars into the market.
According to Les Echos, the classified report urges Khamenei to enact fundamental measures to prevent the heightening impact of international sanctions against the regime.