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The inflation coincided with the introduction of stricter US sanctions, which also coincided with this study's finding that over that same winter poor people who'd just seen prices rise (and lost massive food/fuel subsidies the program replaced) didn't rush to quit their jobs in the face of a more uncertain future. Even Basic Income campaign groups seem to accept that the program helped accelerate the inflation[1] but I'd be hesitant to draw any strong conclusions about BI - good or bad - from the period over which Iran first introduced it. Longer term studies might be a little more interesting if they exist, but there are plenty of other secular trends in the Iranian economy.

An even bigger issue for it as a case study might be the present Iranian government's keenness to phase the program out.

[1]http://basicincome.org/news/2012/05/opinion-irans-citizens-i...