{"id":254901,"date":"2022-01-28T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=254901"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:31:53","slug":"iran-the-poor-tumble-while-the-rich-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/iran-the-poor-tumble-while-the-rich-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: The Poor Tumble While the Rich Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"iran-poverty\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-254962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/iran-poverty.jpg\" alt=\"iran-poverty\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/iran-poverty.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/iran-poverty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/iran-poverty-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/iran-poverty-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/iran-poverty-696x393.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On Friday, January 21, Dr. Javad Safari, a retired university lecturer, committed suicide due to financial difficulties and after not receiving his pension for months.\u00a0 His tragic death once again highlights how the Iranian regime\u2019s plunder and corruption have devastated people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, news broke out that in November, Hojat Abdolmaleki, the regime\u2019s Minister of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare, has \u201cdonated\u201d 60 billion rials (roughly $1.5M USD) to a TV game show.\u00a0 Abdolmaleki\u2019s ministry controls Iran\u2019s Social Security Organization, National Pension Organization, Social Security Investment Company (Shasta). The fate of Dr. Javad Safari, his family, and other Iranian pensioners is in the hands of the likes of Abdolmaleki.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a letter to Abdolmaleki, Ali Foroughi, the director of state-run Channel 3 TV, asked for a 480 billion rials investment for making 780 episodes of the &#8220;Square&#8221; contest. In less than 24 hours, Abdolmaleki approved the funding request.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The so-called \u201cdonation\u201d caused a lot of stir in Iran\u2019s state media. Many outlets sarcastically asked if Abdolmaleki is a minister or the \u201cATM of his friends on TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Reacting to the news, Javad Hosseini Kia, one of the regime\u2019s members of parliament, blatantly claimed, \u201cThese numbers (are) nothing.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThe government contributes about 100 to 150 billion rials to pension funds every month,\u201d he told the state-run <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.entekhab.ir\/fa\/news\/657919\/%D8%B4%D8%B4-%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%87%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%87-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87-%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%AF-%D8%B3%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C-%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA-%DA%A9%D9%87-%DA%A9%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%AF-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%B4%D8%B4-%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D9%87-%DA%A9%D8%AC%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86-%DA%A9%D9%85%DA%A9-%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%B7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B9%DB%8C-%D8%B3%D8%AA\" rel=\"noopener\">Entekhab website<\/a> on January 18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hosseini Kia\u2019s brazen claims stand in stark contrast to Iranian pensioners&#8217; current deplorable financial situation and their daily protests as a result of their poor living conditions and unpaid wages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Due to the regime\u2019s corruption and ineptitude, Iranians\u2019 living standards have significantly diminished, and poverty ravages their lives. Everyone except the regime\u2019s functionaries is feeling the pain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Decades of corruption and mismanagement, coupled with Tehran\u2019s hostilities toward the international community, have caused the national currency to plunge from 43,000 rials to a US dollar to 280,100 this week at the open market. Meanwhile, everything from rent to clothing prices is based on the dollar because most raw materials are imported. \u00a0So people are spending much more of their incomes on much less.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Regime Affiliated Economist: Of Iran&rsquo;s People Are Under Poverty Line\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_fgZ2VLtn8j0\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FfgZ2VLtn8j0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fgZ2VLtn8j0\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT51S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-12-26T17:37:38Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_fgZ2VLtn8j0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FfgZ2VLtn8j0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Regime Affiliated Economist: Of Iran\u2019s People Are Under Poverty Line<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fgZ2VLtn8j0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FfgZ2VLtn8j0%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Regime Affiliated Economist: Of Iran&rsquo;s People Are Under Poverty Line\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Morad Rahdari, Professor of Economics at Payame Noor University acknowledged that majority of Iranians are under the poverty line. \u201cThe poverty line for a family of four is at least 12 million tomans. A simple calculation shows that almost 70% of Iranians are below the poverty line,\u201d he said. \u201cEven if sanctions are lifted today, it will take 30 years to reduce poverty,\u201d Rahdari added, according to the state-run Fararrou website on December 26. Read More: https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IranNCR\/ https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy Subscribe to NCRI weekly newsletter t.ly\/MybJ\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tejaratnews.com\/%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%B1-1401\" rel=\"noopener\">The minimum pension<\/a> of the Iranian retirees hovers around 50,000 million rials or $177. Thus, Abdolmaleki\u2019s \u201cgenerous donation\u201d equals the pension of nearly one thousand Iranians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It is worth noting that the regime\u2019s so-called \u201cIslamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)\u201d receives a 30,000 trillion rials budget for producing its \u201cTV programs,\u201d including the aforementioned game show. Besides, Iran\u2019s state TV earns a considerable profit from commercials. The IRIB is also part of the regime\u2019s intelligence establishment because it spreads propaganda through films and TV programs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Born in 1981, Abdolmaleki is one of the regime president Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s \u201cyoung and Hezbollahi\u201d ministers, who has attained his current position despite having no executive background. He had previously worked in the state-run TV as a showman, most recently hosting the \u201cSquare\u201d game show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This is a result of appointing an inept individual like Abdolmaleki to a ministry that decides the financial fate of over 55 million Iranians, including workers and government employees. Iran\u2019s Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare has 11 general managers in each province, and some of its subsidiaries, such as the Welfare Organization, the Social Security Organization, the National Pension Fund, or the Social Security Pension Fund, operate much like separate ministries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Raisi\u2019s government has refused to even mention its 30,000 trillion rials debt to the Social Security Organization in the 2022-2023 budget plan.\u00a0 Instead, by increasing the retirement age and calculating pensions on the basis of the average salary of the last three years of employment,\u00a0 Raisi\u2019s government will dig deeper into people\u2019s pockets. As a result, the Iranian workers\u2019 and employees\u2019 hard work for three decades vanishes into thin air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe government does not consider the Social Security Organization a public, non-governmental organization but a subset of the Ministry of Labor. So why should the government consider itself obliged to pay the debt to this organization in the budget?\u201d wrote the state-run ILNA on January 16.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The previous government of Hassan Rouhani put up for sale eight billion shares of Social Security Investment Company or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/irans-regime-is-plundering-workers-and-retirees-property-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Shasta<\/a> at the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) on April 13, 2020.\u00a0 Workers and retirees own Shasta, but its CEO and board of directors are appointed by the Minister of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare. In other words, the real owners do not have any say on how the entity operates. Rouhani\u2019s government owed 250,000 trillion rials in debt to Shasta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ordinary Iranians cannot even earn a decent living. So, only those affiliated with the regime could purchase shares of Shasta. The so-called \u201cprivate sector,\u201d or the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), took the ownership of Shasta, not poor Iranian workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Previously, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-the-agonizing-letter-of-starving-workers-of-sugarcane-industry\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Haft\u00a0Tappeh\u202fSugarcane<\/a> factory in Khuzestan Province and\u00a0HEPCO Company in\u00a0Arak were subjected to \u201cprivatization,\u201d and as a result, went bankrupt.\u00a0 Both HEPCO and Haft Tappeh were once flourishing factories employing thousands of workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Another example is the Mazandaran textile factory, Iran\u2019s largest textile conglomerate. On January 25, the state-run Khan-e Melat website, the parliamentary bulletin, quoted Keyvan Moradian, an MP from Mazandaran province, as saying, \u201cIn 2009, the factory was handed over to a foreign investor by Melli Bank for one billion dollars. The buyer had to invest 130 million euros in upgrading the factory by installing modern European equipment and creating at least two thousand jobs in the first phase within two years in exchange for the transfer. But today, 13 years later, there is nothing left from the 130 million euros or 2,000 jobs, and the factory hardly operates with less than 400 employees and has worn-out machinery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">These facts confirm that the root of Iran\u2019s wretched economic crisis lies in the regime\u2019s institutionalized corruption. Iranians chanted during their daily protests, \u201conly on the street can we achieve our rights.\u201d In other words, they consider the regime as the only source of their grim financial situation. The public anger over unemployment, economic anxiety, and corruption has emerged as a potentially existential threat to the regime because Iranians have realized that the only way to end all such crises is to topple the ruling kleptocracy.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-246866 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png 250w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, January 21, Dr. Javad Safari, a retired university lecturer, committed suicide due to financial difficulties and after not receiving his pension for months.&nbsp; 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