- 4 March 2010
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- Events in Iran, Human Rights in Iran
It’s the Economy, Ahmagh
4 March 2010 Posted By Nayda Lakelieh
Time reports that the Iranian economy is in a dire state, more than Tehran would like to reveal. The Iranian government has even stopped reporting economic statistics, as financial anxiety is encroaching upon the Islamic Republic’s stability.
Although the Iranian government has ceased official economic reports, unofficial sources still report the growing labor problems; one report states that a privately owned industrial-parts company in Isfahan has not paid 200 of its employees for the past 7 months. Additional problems were reported in an Isafahani steel plant, where workers started a hunger strike to protest vast discrepancies in their pay. In Shiraz, Gorgan, and cities all over Iran, more reports assert that workers have gone unpaid for months, with some employers even failing to pay state insurance, letting working conditions steadily diminish. Still, there is no official recognition of the growing economic problems.
An Iranian journalist explains “they have manipulated the definition of who is jobless so they can keep the figure close to 10%. But now every family has one jobless person in their home.”
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“They cannot believe all those optimistic figures given by the government. The government says that inflation was less than 30%, but they go to the grocery store and find everything is double and triple the price that it was four years ago.”
The official figures fall short of Iran’s targeted economic development plan, while unemployment is predicted to be over 24%. Ahmadinejad was elected on the campaign platform of economic success, yet has failed to deliver upon his promise. Iranian media continues to depict a thriving economy, while ordinary Iranians feel the brunt of inflation, adding yet another shaky ingredient to the Islamic Republic’s future.
5 Responses to “It’s the Economy, Ahmagh”
30% inflation for four years would lead to prices being 2.8 times higher, which is very nearly triple.
It’s not that i disagree with your sentiments, but…………
“Still, there is no official recognition of the growing economic problems.”
A misleading statement, Nayda. What do you think the upcoming subsidy policy is addressing? True, this represents a shift for the administration, but at least they appear willing to make some courageous changes. Here in the US, it’s just borrow more, print more money, freeze taxes, and put off for another day what will surely come.
And never lose sight of the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran has endured economic warfare directed at it for the past 30 years.
Now I’m not saying that things could use improving- they certainly could. But we should be encouraging a change for the better, not cheerleading a deterioration of conditions.
“Now I’m not saying that things could use improving- they certainly could. But we should be encouraging a change for the better, not cheerleading a deterioration of conditions.”
Hilarious.
blame everyone but the dictator… and why are you so silent on the death sentence for the rock throwers, or the arrests of anyone who speaks against the dictator???
This geriatric regime has never once put the people before itself. A government that makes sure that their ‘ceebeel’ is ‘charb’. This regime is done.
At what point is it enough. They are using the same ol’ tactics and painting a rosey posey picture of a broken Iranian economy. they had their chances and now it is time for them to exit.
Pirouz…Iran has its own issues and cannot be constantly compared to U.S. domestic policies. Apples and oranges.