ژورنال سایت خبری سیاسی ژورنال
PDF-English Journal-3 July 2025-No15
On Wednesday, 10 Tir, Alireza Zakani, the mayor of Tehran, announced that the government has proposed a maximum of 8 million tomans (about $88) per square metre to repair homes damaged in recent Israeli strikes. According to him, over 200 families have been temporarily housed in Tehran hotels, with the municipality cooperating with the government and other agencies in reconstruction efforts. The plan includes the construction of new housing units, expected to take 18 to 24 months, under the direction of the Housing Foundation and other institutions.
However, he made no mention of compensation for other Iranian citizens affected in cities outside Tehran. To date, no Islamic Republic official has provided clear plans for compensating civilians.
By contrast, last year, Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General, Naim Qassem, announced reparations of $12,000 to $14,000 per Lebanese family affected by Israeli attacks, acknowledging that the Islamic regime and Hezbollah have spent around $77 million in this domain. Yet, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat has reported that due to lack of resources, compensation to homeowners in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district has been temporarily halted.
These figures show that neither the people of Tehran and Iran nor displaced Lebanese families have received real support. In Iran, 8 million tomans per square metre barely covers anything—and even this amount remains uncertain in practice. In Lebanon, too, the promised payments have stalled due to “resource shortages,” exposing the regime’s deep economic crisis and its political priorities.
The truth is these funds do not go toward rebuilding lives. They remain trapped within the machinery of power and mafia-state networks. The Islamic Republic’s continued funding of militant groups like Hezbollah reflects a political agenda of influence-building rather than humanitarian support. In the end, these broken promises and token gestures reveal a corrupt, rentier regime. The war-stricken populations of Iran and Lebanon are the primary victims of the Islamic regime’s belligerent policies and its mafia-terror networks.
Without question, the people affected by war—and all citizens whose lives have been harmed, psychologically or physically—must unite in coordinated protests and demand full war reparations from the Islamic Republic.
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