Iranian Workers Say They're Hungry
Radio Free Europe / Radio Free Europe
12-Mar-2011 (2 comments)

"We the workers of Parsilon [a factory] are hungry" read a banner at a gathering during President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's March 1 speech in Khoramabad. 

The banner was a direct challenge to Ahmadinejad and his recent claim that "Iran is among the few countries in the world where no one goes to bed hungry."

He made similar comments during a 2009 press conference. Ahmadinejad said that when the revolution ousted the shah's regime, 95 percent of Iranians lived in absolute poverty. He added that today there were no poor in Iran that are in need of food. 

According to the head of Iran's Statistics Center, Adel Azar, about 40 million Iranians live in poverty including 10 million who live in absolute poverty line and some 30 million under relative poverty line.

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Simorgh5555

Terror regime starves its own people

by Simorgh5555 on Sat Mar 12, 2011 09:16 AM PST

The terror regime is starving its own people? Where are all the petro-dollars going? What happened to the redistribution of wealth which Ahmadinejad promised? The revolution is a failure. Hunger and poverty is common in Iran. The Terror regime has failed its own people. 


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Roozbeh_Gilani

Accountable, honest investment of oil wealth can achieve

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Sat Mar 12, 2011 07:18 PM PST

Zero unemployment, Free health care, Free Education and guaranteed housing for every single citizen of Iran, propelling the country into a free prosperous future society. The kind of society denied to us by greedy, thieving dictators past and present.

 "Personal business must yield to collective interest."


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