At a time when Iran is grappling with severe economic, environmental, and educational crises, the islamic regime continues to allocate massive budgets to religious institutions, funds that are largely used to control hijab enforcement and suppress women.
This unbalanced budget allocation reveals the priorities of the Supreme Leader’s inner circle. Rather than investing in critical sectors like education, healthcare, and the environment, financial resources are funneled into religious and propaganda institutions.
In this episode of The Hijab Industry, we take a closer look at this issue with insights from political analysts Nazila Golestan and Sahar Nasseri, journalist Amir Soltanzadeh, and environmental expert Azam Bahrami.
The HamAva podcast series is committed to fostering national dialogue around universal values: democracy, secular governance, human rights, and sexual equality.Within this framework, we believe we can moveth, through collective wisdom, toward a free and dignified Iran for all Iranians, regardless of belief, opinion, sexuality, ethnicity, or background.