Absolute Poverty in a Land of Wealth: When Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf Is Forced to Admit the Crisis

Absolute Poverty in a Land of Wealth: When Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf Is Forced to Admit the Crisis

Official acknowledgment of 34% absolute poverty exposes the depth of Iran’s structural economic collapse and widening class divide. New remarks by Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iran regime’s parliament, have laid bare the severity of the country’s economic breakdown. In recently published statements on household living conditions, Ghalibaf acknowledged that approximately 34 percent of Iran’s population is living in absolute poverty. In a…