{"id":256622,"date":"2022-03-08T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=256622"},"modified":"2023-02-01T23:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:41:49","slug":"raisi-to-eradicate-poverty-in-two-weeks-in-iran-but-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/raisi-to-eradicate-poverty-in-two-weeks-in-iran-but-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Raisi To Eradicate Poverty in Two Weeks in Iran! But How?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From selling body parts to searching trash cans for food, social media in Iran are filled with heart-wrenching videos of people who are trying desperately to make a meager living.<\/p>\n

Instead of providing a real solution for Iran\u2019s economic crunch, the regime\u2019s president Ebrahim Raisi brazenly ordered the eradication of poverty!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe expect the governors to use all possible capacities to eradicate poverty before we reach the [Persian New Year] of 1401,\u201d he said according to Iran\u2019s state media. Since becoming the regime\u2019s president in June 2021 with tantalizing promises of revitalizing the battered Iranian economy, Raisi has continued his speech therapy and rhetoric. \u00a0A video clip circulated on social media some while ago showing Raisi asking a man, who is speaking of his financial difficulties, whether he had lunch or not!<\/p>\n

What else could be expected of the man who has the blood of 30,000 political prisoners massacred in 1988 on his hands and someone who has no scruples?<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch unprofessional statements by the president have social consequences. Sociologists believe that uttering such slogans discourages people more than ever,\u201d the state-run Jahan-e Sanat daily<\/a> wrote about Raisi\u2019s new claims of combating corruption on March 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to social pathologists, if the government is trying to solve the problem of poverty in society, it must first hear the voices of protesters from different walks of life who gather in front of the Ministry of Labor every day due to low incomes and poverty,\u201d the paper adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least one-third of Iran’s population lives in absolute poverty, so the economic situation must first grow to eradicate absolute poverty. At times, however, the authorities try to maintain class divisions. That’s why I think it’s a little worrying for the public to hear such slogans,\u201d Amir Mahmoud Harirchi, a pathologist, told Jahan-e Sanat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it is said that poverty will be eradicated within two weeks, it indicates authorities’ ineptitude to solve such major problems. In my opinion, Raisi does not have a clear understanding of the level of absolute poverty in the public,\u201d Harirchi said, adding that people feel \u201cabandoned these days, they have no hope of improving their living conditions. However, by speaking such words, the feeling of abandonment in people is strengthened. The authorities live in the best possible conditions and, in fact, do not know absolute poverty.<\/p>\n

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