Musings of a former chicken

This is not new

During the Pahlavi Regime, the ministry of Health stablished the division of Family Planning. The goal was to educate Iranian families, specially women, in the clinics and hospitals, to plan and space the number of children. Their moto was "Farzand-e-kamtar, zendegi-e-behtar" (Less child, better life).

They also provided free contraseptive pills, IUD, or small surgery for tying tubes TL, for those who volunteered and needed financial support. That is how they provided a slow population growth in Iran, I think it was about 35 million at the time of revolution.

I attended the first Family planning conference after the revolution in Firoozgar Hospital. Everybody was nervous about the reaction of  Islamic authorities to the subject. When specialists presented their data, explained the merrit of Family Planning, and asked if the Islamic government would let them continue their programs, to my surprise, Ayatollah Beheshti who was the top delegate, told them to send him a letter indicating the merit of the program, and he will find a "kolah sharee" for it to continue!

Unfortunately A.Beheshti was assacinated, and the war with Iraq needed more kids to go over the mines, before pasdaran attack, therefore A. Khomeini asked Iranians to have more children to sacrifice for Islam.

At this time that majority of 65+ million Iranians can not afford to buy chicken and other food items, and majority of food items are imported, I wonder how they want to feed the extra population!