Media Wire

Survey shows Iranians upbeat Pezeshkian administration able to tame inflation

A new poll found that a majority of Iranians are upbeat that the new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and his administration can tame high levels of inflation in the country. The swearing-in ceremony for Pezeshkian was held at the Parliament on Tuesday.

Results of the poll published on Tuesday by the semi-official ISNA news agency showed that more than 54% of the people were hopeful and highly hopeful that Pezeshkian would be successful in controlling the inflation in Iran.

Some 17.8% of respondents to the survey had low expectations that the new president would succeed to contain inflation while 23.2% said he would be relatively successful.

The poll showed that 35.4% of people believed that Pezeshkian would have a high degree of success in executing his anti-inflation plans while 19.2% had almost no doubts that he would successfully control and reduce the inflation.

The poll was conducted by Sarmayeh Polling Agency in early July and after Pezeshkian won the run-off presidential election in Iran.

Some 4% of respondents didn’t have any opinion about the question on president’s chances of containing the inflation while 0.4% refused to respond.

Iran has seen high but controlled levels of inflation since 2019 when its oil exports came under US sanctions.

Inflation exacerbated in the country for a period in 2022-2023 after the global supply and demand chains were affected by the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

IFP Media Wire

Reports and views published in the Media Wire section have been retrieved from other news agencies and websites, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Iran Front Page (IFP) news website. The IFP may change the headlines of the reports in a bid to make them compatible with its own style of covering Iran News, and does not make any changes to the content. The source and URL of all reports and news stories are mentioned at the bottom of each article.