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NCRI –\u00a0Here people eat chestnut bread, as they don\u2019t have wheat flour. Poverty on the outskirts of Masjed Soleyman, the city where Iran\u2019s first oil well was discovered, is so much that people can\u2019t afford a gallon of kerosene, and not even a bread.<\/p>\n
\u201cPoverty and deprivation in the villages of Masjed Soleyman is much more that what we expected, so much so that some people even can\u2019t afford a bread to feed their children with\u201d, writes Revolutionary Guards\u2019 Fars news agency on March 8.<\/p>\n
The bread problem in the region is so much that many people can\u2019t even afford wheat flour to bake bread with, grinding chestnut instead with so much difficulty so as to bake bread with its flour.<\/p>\n
Bread, however, is not people\u2019s only problem here. Some people have no place to live, so they\u2019ve moved into tents. Some other have built houses of stone and clay, using firewood for heating.<\/p>\n
In some of these places, animals live next to humans.<\/p>\n
Lack of fuel for heating is another problem the villagers are suffering from, forcing them to turn to firewood for heating their houses, cooking, etc.<\/p>\n
The strange point, though, is that the region is close to the city of Masjed Soleyman, where Iran\u2019s first oil well was found. Now, in country\u2019s most oil-reach region, people are in need of a gallon of kerosene.<\/p>\n
The state-run news agency then tries to shed crocodile tears, saying \u201clooking at these poor children whose families couldn\u2019t afford a pair of shoes for them, so that they had to walk barefoot on a ground full of mud and stones, and with improper clothes in a cold and rainy weather, brought us nothing but regret and shame. We couldn\u2019t believe so much deprivation even after seeing these scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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