How the Iranian regime caused a tsunami of poverty
Homeless people, labor children and drug addicts in the streets In a cold, cloudy November morning in Tehran, a chill breeze sweeps the leaves in one of the main streets of Tehran, drawing the gazes of passersby to a man lying on a piece of cardboard beside the pavement. Seeing homeless people, labor children, and drug addicts wandering and lying in the streets has now become a common scene in Iran. “70 percent of the population is under the poverty line.” These are statistics that even official state-run media cannot hide and have to reveal in a bid to maintain a modicum of a reputation as news sources. On October 31, state-run news agency ILNA revealed, “In the recent circumstances almost 70 percent of the population lives in a vulnerable situation that will extremely affect the low-income strata of the society. However, mid-class strata will suffer as well.” Tasnim, a news agency with ties to the terrorist IRGC Quds force, talked about the collapse of the middle and ...