Hoveida in his defense in the revolutionary anti-court in his defense held up a pen stating that the price of the pen when he left was the same as when he took office. I am sure very few Iranians understood just what he said. As a person that could thus felt how easy it is to steal via printing money what he was trying to say was that if we wanted to steal money we would simply print money and create inflation.
Absolutely, the easiest way to steal money from the general public, without them even realizing just who is stealing and where the money is going is to print money. Needless to say the Islamic Republic government consists of thieves.