'Corruption on earth' brings death penalty in Iran

Conservative Iranian parliamentarian Ahmad Tavakoli talked about the problems of corruption in the country at a Dec. 9 speech at Yasuj University.

Tavakoli is skeptical about the optimistic comments made by the Hassan Rouhani administration regarding the state of the economy once international sanctions are removed. “Various factors shape the economy that result in the stagnation or the success of the economy,” he said, adding that corruption was “ruining the allocation of resources and distorting the direction of the economy.”