{"id":236360,"date":"2021-03-15T06:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=236360"},"modified":"2023-01-26T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T13:45:40","slug":"state-run-media-warn-regime-of-major-iran-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/state-run-media-warn-regime-of-major-iran-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: State-Run Media Warn Regime of Major Iran Protests Ahead of Sham Presidential Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran’s state-run media are warning officials of social turmoil due to the increasing economic and social crisis.<\/p>\n

These warnings come just months before the regime’s sham presidential elections.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the government approved a plan, raising workers’ salaries to 3.9 million tomans. While some officials bragged about this salary raise, state-run media acknowledged that workers’ new salary rate is far below the poverty line.<\/p>\n

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“Even though this increase in wages is more than in previous years, it still has a significant distance from the real inflation in the country. It is not clear what is happening to the working class of society these days,” wrote<\/a> the state-run Aftab-e Yazd daily on Monday.<\/p>\n

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“People’s income has reached its lowest point due to the Covid-19 outbreak and the economic events. People are going through difficult conditions. Economic pressures such as rampant inflation, declining incomes, declining purchasing power and rising poverty on the one hand, and the costs of coronavirus outbreaks on the other, have created many challenges for them,” wrote<\/a> the state-run Sobh-e Emrooz daily on Monday.<\/p>\n

“The rampant rise in inflation and the unsettled economy once again shifted the poverty line. The poverty line for a family of four is 10 million tomans. The latest published statistics on the poverty line are related to May of this year, estimated at 9 million tomans. Considering the rampant growth of inflation and the skyrocketing prices over the past four months in various economic sectors, the poverty line has seemingly exceeded 10 million tomans. The 10 million toman poverty line indicates the difficult conditions of low-income families, especially workers. The difference between income and the poverty line is a repeated story. But the skyrocketing prices due to the coronavirus have made this difference more important than before,” Sobh-e Emrooz\u2019s article adds.<\/p>\n

Instead of acting, the regime’s officials either blame international sanctions for Iran’s economic crisis or only complain about the situation.<\/p>\n

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“Recently, we hear these words from many officials: Expensiveness is rampant. Officials should be held accountable. If the officials want to evade responsibility as soon as they are asked, they should leave their positions and protest as people do. It’s wrong. This is our problem, and everyone must be held accountable in their position,” wrote the state-run Eghtesad Pouya daily on Monday.<\/p>\n

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“This inefficient state of the country’s economic management must end. From 2014 to this year, people’s purchasing power has fallen sharply. An important part of the problems now is not the sanctions but the weakness of management. Inadvertently, [the government’s officials] have drastically devalued the currency against foreign currencies. You can also see the status of the stock market. [President Hassan Rouhani] claims that both the centrifuges and the economy are running. Such words are strange and disappointing in this situation,” the state-run Fars news agency reported<\/a> on March 6, quoting Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the regime’s Expediency Discernment Council.<\/p>\n

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#Iran<\/a> Regime\u2019s Role in Devastating the Economy#poverty<\/a> #Corruption<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/3DLz70q1nD<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) March 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n