The mullahs now ruling Iran were able to hijack the
revolution that sacked the U.S.-backed Shah regime back in February 1979.
However, the 38-year report card left by the mullahs has only raised extreme
anger throughout the Iranian society.
Numbers are very vivid in
revealing the undeniable atrocities caused by the mullahs’ disastrous policies.
The daily trend of continuous
executions in Iran has raised anger amongst the international community for
years. Iran is considered the number one executioner per capita.
The number of executions in
Iran “paints a sinister picture of the machinery of the state carrying out
premeditated, judicially-sanctioned killings on a mass scale,” according to Amnesty International.
Suicides are also on the rise, especially amongst women, ranking Iran first in the Middle East and third in the world. There
are also reports of a
growing number of teenagers committing suicide.
Drug addiction is yet another disastrous result of
the mullahs’ rule in Iran. The amount of drugs spreading amongst women and
teenagers is skyrocketing and state-run media are citing experts estimating at least 8 million Iranians
are suffering from this dreadful phenomenon.
Iran’s roads are even considered very dangerous, as
the mullahs refuse to allocate the necessary budget to provide safe passages. 20,000 people die
each year in Iran and 300,000 injured (150% more than the global
average). Iran’s annual road accident casualty statistics are even compared to
an all-out war.
Poverty has increased to an extent that many Iranians
have resorted to gathering recyclable
products, food stuffs and other trash to make ends meet, and the homeless sleeping in
pre-dug graves.
All the while Iran is a country sitting on a vast sea
of crude oil and natural gas, with new reports of 2 billion barrels of shell oil
discovered in western Iran.
The country’s economy, however,
has nosedived to such an extent that more than 50% of the industrial units have gone bankrupt or are on the verge of
bankruptcy.
Unemployment is now a critical and increasing
crisis. Nearly 15 million people are unemployed in Iran, according to an Iranian economy
expert.
The mullahs’ policies have
literally destroyed the entire “middle class” in Iran, leaving the population
divided between a small percentage with massive riches, and a high percentage
living in poverty.
“30% of the country’s population is hungry and have no bread to eat,” said Ali Akbar Sayari, Deputy Health
Minister in the cabinet of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Iran has an urban population of 65 million, of which one third live in city outskirts comparable to shacks and slums.
“Around 20 million people are living in 53,000 hectares (204 square miles) of non-official residential areas,” according to Mohammad Saeed Izadi, Iran’s Deputy Minister of Road and
Construction.
Heshmat Alavi is a political and rights activist. His writing
focuses on Iran, ranging from human rights violations, social crackdown, the
regime’s support for terrorism and meddling in foreign countries, and the
controversial nuclear program.
He tweets at @HeshmatAlavi
& blogs at IranCommentary
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