Extreme poverty, repression and executions in Iran and the massacre in Syria
By Shahriar Kia
Iran, and the entire world for that matter, was shocked and
appalled over images of homeless Iranians resorting to sleeping -- and even
living -- in pre-dug graves to escape freezing winter cold conditions. As
mainstream media correctly covered this previously unknown aspect of life in
Iran that the ruling mullahs desperately attempt to cloak, further news
continues to trouble readers across the spectrum while shedding light on a
broader dilemma diseasing the regime.
“It is quite terrible for people to be homeless and even sleep in
graves, and for 7,500 ‘grave sleepers’ to be rounded up in a single day,” said
Iranian Deputy Health Minister Mohammad Hadi Ayazi.
We cannot deny the fact that this is a senior Iranian official,
first of all, confirming the horrific scope of this devastating phenomenon, and
how Iranian authorities, obviously humiliated and furious over the media
coverage, have resorted to such drastic “roundup” measures.
“…1.35 million drug addicts across the country and one in every
four marriages ending in divorce,” he added. Of course, it is also worth noting
that considering the Iranian regime’s nature, senior officials always downgrade
the exact numbers in such statistics, especially regarding the controversial
issue of drug addicts.
From a broader perspective, these social crises provide a very
insightful view into the truth of the status quo in Iran. This country is ruled
by a regime desperately managing an economic crisis while systematic corruption
and grant practices have run rampant. Senior Iranian officials are known to
plunder people’s wealth, parallel to wasting billions from oil and gas revenues
to fuel wars in Syria in supporting the Bashar Assad regime, and financially
supporting Shiite proxies in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Lebanese
Hizb’allah. More billions are poured into the regime’s nuclear ambitions and
the program to master and obtain ballistic missiles.
“Reports from inside Iran indicate a
mounting economic crisis, despite a windfall of billions pouring into Iran
following the nuclear deal sealed with the P5+1 following negotiations in which
the international community bent over backward in the mullahs’ favor,” wrote Iranian rights
advocate Amir Basiri in American
Thinker.
Rampant grants and systematic corruption are plaguing the Iranian
financial system, as Vice President Es’haq Jahangir indicated: “systematic
corruption had infiltrated all layers of the economy.”
The majority of
Iranians are living
under the poverty line, resulting from senior regime officials plundering
national wealth in mind-boggling figures.
“Tehran’s prosecutor also revealed financial corruption of the
regime officials plundering 80 trillion rials ($24.8 billion dollars) of the
Teachers and Educators Reserve Fund,” as reported by the Iranian opposition National Council
of Resistance of Iran, an umbrella group of numerous organization,
including thePeople's
Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Tehran has also deprived the Iranian people of further billions of
dollars, wasting this much-needed budget in wars across the Middle East, most
specifically Syria.
“Iran is shoring up the Syrian regime from a secret HQ in Damascus
nicknamed ‘the Glasshouse’ -- and commanding a huge covert army in support of
Assad,” the Algemeiner wrote,
adding Iranian “Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has spent billions in hardware for
its ally Bashar al-Assad in the last five years...”
To add insult to injury, Iran has continued nuclear and ballistic
missiledevelopments, all in defiance of various agreements sealed
with the international community.
These notorious measures by Tehran show for what purpose the
country’s money is actually spent, further plunging the population into poverty
and further social dilemmas.
“The budget allocation for the Revolutionary Guard was $3.3
billion in 2013, increased to $6 billion in 2015, declined to $4.5 billion in
2016 but increased by 53 percent to $6.9 billion for 2017,” wnd.com reported.
The above-mentioned figures prove the fact that the money released
by sanctions relief and heading to Iran are spent on anything but the Iranian
people’s interests. Secondly, as the “grave sleepers” phenomenon
signals escalating poverty, the Iranian people have never benefited from
the boasted nuclear deal, acting as the main platform to release Iran’s frozen
assets. Finally, the regime in Tehran is completely unstable and any entity
evaluating the possibility of investing in Iran is highly advised to take a
step back and think twice.
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