NCRI – An official of the Iranian regime has said that the rate of unemployment in Iran is over 25 percent, the state-run Jomhouri Eslami daily reported on Saturday.
Abbas Vatanpour, a former director of the regime’s Council for Coordination of Employers, said, “The official rate of 6.5% as stated by the statistics center is not realistic.”
“The evidence indicate that one fourth of the labor force is not employed, which equals 25 percent unemployment rate.”
Also on Saturday, another regime official said that there has been a 40 percent jump in the number of layoffs in Iran while 90 percent of privatized companies have gone bankrupt.
According to the state-run Mowj news agency, Ali Dehqan Kia, the director of Tehran province’s Labour Council Association, also said, “About 6 billion dollars worth of goods is smuggled into the country. For every one billion dollars of smuggled goods, 25,000 workers in Iran would be laid off.”