Iran’s regime feeling desolate, helpless in the face of numerous crises
Iran, June 19, 2019 - While, according to Iranian regime officials, the Islamic Republic has no option but to align itself with ordinary Iranians in the face of foreign pressure, sheer incompetency and accumulated social problems have rendered the situation more explosive than ever before.
Nahid Tajeddin, a member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) from the camp close to mullahs’ President Hassan Rouhani, voiced a concerned view on Monday.
“I was thinking about what I should say for the youth from behind this tribune? The same youth, who despite being 40 percent of the Iranian population, 25.3 percent of them have been unemployed in the [Persian] year 2017-2018, according to the data from the center for statistics,” she said.
“I was thinking about what I should say for the women? The very same women who are 50 percent of this society but their share of higher management positions in the country has yet to reach the 30 percent mark set by the president’s office,” she added.
“I was thinking about what I should say from behind this tribune for the people who have not been mentioned? What pain should we talk about that hasn’t been already talked about and what is the remedy for all these pain,” Tajeddin further said, concluding her speech by referring to the plight of Iranian workers whose monthly provide only a portion of today’s living costs. Tajeddin warned about factional infightings among the political elite, but didn’t present any solution for the dilemmas the mullahs’ regime.
In the same Majlis session, Mahmoud Bahmani, former Central Bank governor and a current Majlis member added to the regime’s growing list of concerns.
“Right now, the middle class and poor people of the society are becoming weaker every day and profiteers, brokers and underground economic activists who see themselves beyond the law have become richer and bolder,” he said.
“Nonetheless, the country’s resources and reserves are fourth in terms of oil and second in terms of gas, and first in general terms and we have [just] one percent of the world population and seven percent of the world’s natural resources,” Bahmani added
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