Iran's point-to-point inflation rate has exploded past 77.2%, and the mullahs in Tehran are finding out that you can't eat enriched uranium. No aircraft carriers were deployed. No soldiers were put in harm's way. Just good old-fashioned economic pressure doing exactly what it was designed to do — squeezing the regime until it squeaks.
Funny how the media forgot to celebrate this one.
As reported by Hot Air, the numbers coming out of Iran right now are absolutely brutal. The point-to-point inflation rate stands at 77.2%, with the 12-month average clocking in at 53.9%. For basic necessities, prices have surged past 80%. We're not talking about luxury goods here. We're talking about food on the table and gas in the car.
The breakdown is staggering. Cooking oil prices have skyrocketed 266% year-on-year. Red meat is up 175%. Food overall has jumped 129.8%. Vehicles are up 125%. Even water, electricity, and fuel — the basics of modern civilization — have climbed 95%. Imagine your grocery bill nearly tripling. Now imagine you live in a country run by theocratic lunatics who spent all the money on proxy wars and nuclear ambitions.
Political YouTuber and news director Mahyar Tousi — an Iranian ex-pat living in London who runs what's been called the most-watched online news show in the UK — broke down the numbers on Tousi TV. Born in Iran, Tousi came to Britain as a child after his mother's escape from the regime. He knows firsthand what that government is capable of, and the picture he paints of Iran's current economic reality is one of a regime in freefall.
This is the sanctions success story that the legacy media refuses to tell because they can't figure out how to tell it without giving credit where it's due. For years we heard that sanctions don't work, that economic pressure just hurts ordinary people, that diplomacy — meaning pallets of cash flown in on unmarked planes — was the only responsible path. Remember that?
Well, 77.2% inflation says otherwise.
When cooking oil costs nearly four times what it did last year, the regime's ability to fund Hezbollah, arm the Houthis, and bankroll terror operations across the Middle East takes a serious hit. Money that used to flow to proxy armies now has to go toward keeping the lights on at home — if it even can. A 95% increase in utility costs means the Iranian people are feeling every bit of this, and that kind of domestic pressure is something no amount of "Death to America" chanting can fix.
The beautiful thing about economic warfare is that it's patient. It doesn't make for dramatic cable news footage. There are no explosions, no helicopter shots, no breathless Anderson Cooper stand-ups. Just numbers on a spreadsheet quietly destroying a hostile regime's capacity to function.
77.2%. Two digits that tell you everything you need to know about where Iran's headed. The mullahs wanted to play hardball. They're getting it — served cold, with a side of 266% cooking oil.
