Expert Censures ‘Unrealistic’ Budgetary Figures

The fiscal 2022-23 budget is riddled with problems and contradictions, as well as unrealistic figures, Mehdi Pazouki, an economic expert, says in an article for the Persian daily Ta’adol. 
A translation of the full text follows:
The fiscal 2022-23 budget bill is replete with many problems and contradictions; it has been drafted on the basis of unreal numbers. For example, now that the country’s economic growth stands at between -1 and -2 percent, the government has projected a highly unlikely 8% growth for next year. 
Besides, the economic growth is not supposed to be achieved through budgeting. Basically, those who imagine the growth in the government budget leads to economic growth are non-expert laypersons…