Seventh Plan Should Boost Anti-Corruption Campaign

The seventh five-year development plan (2022-27) can provide a golden opportunity in the fight against corruption; many regional countries have succeeded in going through the initial stages of containing corruption and increasing their score on the list of corruption-free economies. Iran’s score in fighting corruption is very low when compared with regional countries, which is a wakeup call for authorities, Nasser Zakeri, an economist, prefaced his article for the Persian daily Shargh with this note. 
[The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys. Published annually by the non-governmental organization Transparency International since 1995, 180 countries are ranked on a scale from 100 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt).]
A translation of the article follows: