The direct relationship between variables such as unemployment and inflation and currency policies doubles the role of currency in the efficiency and effectiveness of the economic system. The undeniable effects that economic inefficiency has on public dissatisfaction with the custodian and sovereign governments show the special role of the currency system in the political economy of each country. Iran's economic system is a single product and dependent on oil exports, and economic sanctions have made it very difficult for Iran to earn foreign currency, which has an undeniable effect on the vulnerability of the currency system and the governments' inefficiency in managing the country's economic situation. This article deals with the impact of inefficiency in the foreign exchange system on criminal policy in the field of foreign exchange crimes with the qualitative method and discourse analysis through the review of cases, interviews of legislative, judicial and executive policy makers and laws, approvals and guidelines. According to the findings of the present research, in such circumstances, the criminal justice system tends to justify the its inefficient international policies that causes the sanctions and the existing problems in controlling the effects of economic sanctions by projecting and scapegoating several criminals, and the reason for the critical economic situation is attributed to their crimes, and then policy makers declare that public dissatisfaction causes the adoption of populist and strict criminal policies and using punishments such as execution and long-term imprisonment. In the short term, these populist actions may prove the will of the ruling system to reform affairs in the public eye, but since in this approach the problem is not expressed in structural corruption but in the existence of a few rotten fruits, no action has been taken to reform the inefficient and unscientific structure.