Iran’s Heritage Minister Reza Salehi Amiri tells Al Jazeera that damage to 56 museums and historical monuments is a “deliberate war” on the country’s identity.
“We aren’t talking about stone and mortar, but about the memory and history of a people,” he says.
The government no longer has the budgetary space to continue carrying hundreds of billions of rupees in untargeted subsidies while the power sector itself remains trapped in circular debt, inefficiencies, theft and under-recovery.
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