Iran's Largest Steel Company Caught in Billion-Dollar Corruption Scandal

By Henry Pope
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
August 25, 2022

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16694-iran-s-largest-steel-company-caught-in-billion-dollar-corruption-scandal

Radio Farda Exposé On IRGC Corruption, Infighting Raises Ire Of Iranian Authorities

By Golnaz Esfandiari
Radio Farda
February 18, 2022

https://www.rferl.org/amp/farda-leaked-conversation-corruption-irgc/31710316.html

Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part I: The Ones That Got Away

By Masoud Kazemi 
Iran Wire 
January 27, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71184/
 
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part II: Buying Off the Intelligence Ministry

January 31, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71211/
 
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part III: The General (Non-)Inspection Office

February 1, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71216/
 
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part IV: Sanctions-Dodging and the IRGC

February 1, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71220/
 
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part V: The Irancell Hustle

February 2, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71224/
 
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part VI: The Partner Who Fled to Canada

February 7, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71254/
 
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part VII: The Regime's Favourite Fat Cats

February 7, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71263/
 
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part VIII: Career Swindler's Takings Stashed in UK and Canada

February 7, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71264/

 
Iran's Great Petrochemical Corruption Scandal, Part IX: A Veteran Minister's Greed

February 9, 2022

https://iranwire.com/en/politics/71270/

Corruption and Mismanagement Index

United Against Nuclear Iran 
June 2022

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/index.php/corruption

Corrupt to the Core: The Long List of Corrupt Iranian Officials

By Ehsan Mehrabi
Iran Wire 
December 21, 2020

https://iranwire.com/en/features/68397/

Under the shadow

Illicit economies in Iran

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime 
October 2020

https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/under-the-shadow-illicit-economies-in-iran/

Iran Corruption Report

Risk & Compliance
August 2020

https://www.ganintegrity.com/portal/country-profiles/iran/

Fighting corruption or just more political infighting in Iran?

By Tahereh Hadian-Jazy
Atlantic Council 
September 5, 2019

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/fighting-corruption-or-just-more-political-infighting-in-iran/

How the Corruption Mafia Took $30 Billion out of Iran in One Year

By Ali Ranjipour 
Iran Wire 
May 28, 2019

https://iranwire.com/en/features/66059/

Billions Of Dollars Involved In Two Corruption Trials In Iran

Radio Farda
March 14, 2019

https://en.radiofarda.com/amp/billions-of-dollars-involved-in-two-corruption-trials-in-iran/29820792.html

Record corruption scandal puts spotlight on Iranians in Iran, US

The revelation of perhaps the biggest corruption scandal in Iranian history has exposed domestic political fault lines and is already reverberating as far away as Washington, DC.

By Rohollah Faghihi
Al-Monitor
March 11, 2019

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2019/03/iran-corruption-case-petrochemical-hamzelou-sheikholeslami.html

Nepotism, Corruption, and Fraud: Business as Usual among Iran’s Political Elite

As economic conditions in Iran worsen, Iranians are shifting some of the blame from the West to domestic causes, including corruption and economic mismanagement.

By Sara Bazoobandi
The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington
September 10, 2018

https://agsiw.org/nepotism-corruption-and-fraud-business-as-usual-among-irans-political-elite/

Why Iran must legislate away rampant corruption

By Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
Al-Monitor 
August 30, 2018

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2018/08/iran-corruption-economic-crisis-rouhani-reform-legislation.html

Corruption is Here - Get Used to It

Iran Wire 
July 26, 2018

https://iranwire.com/en/features/65429/

Iran: The long road to transparency

Article 19
September 28, 2017

https://www.article19.org/resources/iran-the-long-road-to-transparency/

Iran's double standard of justice

By Shabnam von Hein 
Deutsche Welle
July 20, 2017

https://m.dw.com/en/irans-double-standard-of-justice/a-39778965

Corruption among Iran's business elites

In Iran, billionaire Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption. He once had close ties to political circles. The justice system just wants to close the case and has no interest in further explanation.

Deutsche Welle
March 14, 2016

https://amp.dw.com/en/corruption-among-irans-business-elites/a-19116640

Corruption trial uncovers links between money and Iranian politics

A corruption trial is exposing this closed society's links between money and politics

By Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Bijan Namdar Zangeneh

Financial Times 
December 2, 2015

https://www.ft.com/content/e6e949f8-8eae-11e5-8be4-3506bf20cc2b

An Administration Plagued by Fraud and Corruption

By Muhammad Sahimi
PBS
Frontline
Tehran Bureau
March 30, 2010

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/03/ahmadinejad-and-his-men-embodiments-of-fraud-and-corruption.html