Posted on 10/09/2020 11:51:02 AM PDT by Irannewswire
According to new official figures, half of Iran’s population live in absolute poverty. The report published by the Statistical Center of Iran also said that Iranians were not able to buy basic groceries.
Average Iranians eat 52% less red meat, while those with lower incomes eat 65% less red meat compared to last year, the report said. Iranians are also eating 34% less rice, the country’s staple food.
Nine years ago, in 2011, only 18% of the population lived in absolute poverty. Last year, this figure increased to 35%.
Currently, 1 USD is trading at 29,750 tomans, an all time low which directly effects people’s purchasing power. The current poverty line in Iran is 10 million tomans (around $336), while the absolute poverty line is 6.8 million tomans (around $229), which puts 50% of the Iranian population under the line of “absolute poverty”.
#Iran labor official: A worker's salary finishes in 10 days/can't afford cheese let alone meat/can't afford a home even after 200 yrs. Regime elites are getting richer while 60mln Iranians live under the line of poverty. These are the effects of 41yrs of corruption.
Absolute poverty Sixty million Iranians live under the line of poverty due to the regime’s systematic lack of supervision over the economy, an Iranian economist said. Speaking to Tabnak, a website affiliated with the regime, Ibrahim Razaghi said “the most important threat to Iran was extreme poverty, widespread unemployment, the inability of many people to pay their rent, and that the rich were getting richer.”
“There are currently 30 million unemployed people and 60 million people live below the poverty line,” he said adding that the economic situation was “very bad.”
According to state-run media, more than 19 million Iranians live in 3,000 slums and make up the 35% of Iran’s urban population. This is while Iran’s regime elites live in luxury, in Tehran’s Lavasan region, dubbed the “Beverly Hills of Iran”.
Iran’s poverty will turn to protests Officials fear that widespread poverty in Iran will soon turn to major protests, the likes of which were seen in November 2019, which shook the foundations of the regime.
On September 1, Hossein Zolfaghari, the Head of the Security and Law Enforcement Department of Iran’s Ministry of Interior said protests calls in the country had increased three-fold compared to last year. A regime-affiliated university professor told the state-run Etemad Online website that the government’s lack of attention to public demands was extending the split between the government and the people.
“The subverters will dwell in this split and will allow themselves to try to overthrow the government and take power,” Bijan Abdolkarimi added. Referring to the major protests in November 2019, he said “we will definitely see more of these protests” in the future.
#ilm ?
Well that one guy is holding a cell phone so that family couldn’t be that impoverished.
Sounds like Iranians need to do something about that. Maybe if they start chanting “Death to America” it’ll take their minds off it.
Good thing they got rid of the Shah.
Message to all the Persians in Persia and Mesopotamia:
Time to cull the imams and ayatollahs out of your population.
May I suggest starting with Khomeini?
5.56mm
What cell phone? One hand is on his knee. The other hand is in front of his face. Where is the phone?
Government supervision over an economy i.e. bureaucratic control, crushing regulations, cronyism, and burdensome taxation, is generally what hampers economies.
Nice try, Akbar.
That is sad, but how is that a change from last year or ten years ago?
quit making little Iranians until you can easily feed the ones you have, Achmed.
While the clerics are fat and driving Mercedes Benz’s.
I use to hear the same about Tijuana Meico.
BUY, every shack had a water cooler and direct tv antenna
In the photo the guy on the right is holding what appears to be a smartphone in his left hand holding it to his left ear. It has what looks like a floral pattern on it.
Where?
I have visited the cited link twice. I see nobody holding a phone to their ear. Where do you see this photo?
Perhaps you have clicked a link within the original story?
Skip it - his fingers formed a “V” and what I had first thought it looked like he was holding a smart phone when in actuality I was seeing the pattern of the floor through his fingers thinking it was a cellphone. My goof. Sorry.
Skip it - his fingers formed a “V” and what I had first thought it looked like he was holding a smart phone when in actuality I was seeing the pattern of the floor through his fingers thinking it was a cellphone. My goof. Sorry.
That few?
Gee, better lift those darned sanctions, and the poverty will vanish overnight, as will all the executions by stoning! /sarc
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