NCRI – Every minute five more people in Iran join the sea of unemployed people in the country, according to the state-run Resalat daily.
The paper wrote on October 25 that Ali Rabei, Hassan Rouhani’s Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, who was speaking to a gathering of representatives of unions in Iran’s Zanjan Province, said: “Currently, it is such that every minute five more are added to the army of unemployed and there is a need now for the creation of 800,000 new jobs every year.”
Rouhani’s Minister of Labor ridiculed previous remarks by the regime’s former President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad that he would bring oil revenues to the dinner tables of Iranians and said: “Unfortunately, our economy has been tied to the sale of oil since the Qajar Dynasty.”