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Following years of unemployment after graduation, Hamid, a 26-year old electrical engineer, left his home town of Bobol on the Caspian Sea last year and moved to Tehran in search of better prospects. But six months later, he has resigned himself to driving a taxi to make ends meet.

“It is four years I have been looking for a job, but I am certain now that I have no chance,” Hamid says. His brother Saeid, 24, an agricultural engineer who joined him in moving to the capital, has also had no luck.

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