Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 11
By Fatih Karimov– Trend:
Iranian administration has proposed the country's $340 billion budget for the Iranian fiscal year starting March 20, 2018 to parliament on Dec. 10.
In the budget bill, the expenditure for main intelligence entities was set at 41 trillion rials (about $1.2 billion), meanwhile the figure for current year (started March 2017) is 39.7 trillion rials.
The figures indicates that the Iranian administration has increased intelligence expenditure by some 4 percent compared with the current fiscal year.
The table below shows the details of the proposed military budget for next fiscal year:
|
The name of intelligence entities |
Next year budget bill (billion rials) |
Next year budget bill (million USD) |
Share of total% |
Current year budget (billion rials) |
Share of total% |
Y/Y change % |
|
Intelligence ministry |
40,328 |
1,152 |
97.3 |
38,933 |
98 |
4 |
|
Police |
275 |
8 |
0.7 |
229 |
0.6 |
20 |
|
Defense ministry |
86 |
2 |
0.2 |
65 |
0.2 |
32 |
|
Army |
280 |
8 |
0.7 |
151 |
0.4 |
85 |
|
IRGC |
465 |
13 |
1.1 |
338 |
0.9 |
38 |
|
Total |
41,434 |
1,184 |
100 |
39,716 |
100 |
4 |
The Iranian administration has allocated over 97 percent of the intelligence budget for the intelligence ministry.
Rouhani’s government has increased the IRGC budget by 38 percent, meanwhile the allocated budget for Army has been decreased by 85 percent.