Iran is currently at a fertility rate of 1.8 which is below the minimum replacement level of 2.1.
Iran’s birth rate plummeting at record pace - Up Front
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1374/is_1_63/ai_96417139/
Sex, drugs and Islam
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KB24Ak02.html
“Iran is dying. The collapse of Iran’s birth rate during the past 20 years is the fastest recorded in any country, ever. Demographers have sought in vain to explain Iran’s population implosion through family planning policies, or through social factors such as the rise of female literacy.”
“But quantifiable factors do not explain the sudden collapse of fertility. It seems that a spiritual decay has overcome Iran, despite best efforts of a totalitarian theocracy. Popular morale has deteriorated much faster than in the “decadent” West against which the Khomeini revolution was directed.”
Two indicators of Iranian morale are worth citing.
First, prostitution has become a career of choice among educated Iranian women. On February 3, the Austrian daily Der Standard published the results of two investigations conducted by the Tehran police, suppressed by the Iranian media. [1]
“More than 90% of Tehran’s prostitutes have passed the university entrance exam, according to the results of one study, and more than 30% of them are registered at a university or studying,” reports Der Standard. “The study was assigned to the Tehran Police Department and the Ministry of Health, and when the results were tabulated in early January no local newspaper dared to so much as mention them.”
Second, according to a recent report from the US Council on Foreign Relations, “Iran serves as the major transport hub for opiates produced by [Afghanistan], and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime estimates that Iran has as many as 1.7 million opiate addicts.” That is, 5% of Iran’s adult, non-elderly population of 35 million is addicted to opiates. That is an astonishing number, unseen since the peak of Chinese addiction during the 19th century. The closest American equivalent (from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health) found that 119,000 Americans reported using heroin within the prior month, or less than one-tenth of 1% of the non-elderly adult population.
Lower birthrate than USA. At least we have the Mexicans to do the procreating for us.
It is worse for Iran than the 1.8 children per women suggests. Only 50% are Persians, who are not reproducing. The Arabs, Turkmen, Azerbajanis, Kurds are reproducing. In about 15 years, the Persians will be a significant minority.
Why? Because the smart and well educated women refuse subjection to the current religious troglodytes. Taxes are high, so the wealthy can not afford the harems with tens of children.