Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Iran: consequences

President Ahmadinejad wants Iranians to have more children then the average two per family.
At this moment the country has a population of 70 million people and a very high rate on youth unemployment.
He said that he was ready to decrease the working hours of married women or women with children to make it easier for them to take care of more children.
He said:"I am not saying that women shouldn't work but they presence outside of the home should not in any way compromise their principal mission which is to educate their children," .
Furthermore he said that Iran has the capacity to fill the needs of 120 million citizens.
"The West fears more than anything else, our population growth and we must defeat them in this battle," he said.




Over 200.000 workers in 500 factories have not received any salary for months.
This was said by Alireza Mahjoub, the general secretary of Iran’s House of Labor and member of parliament.
More then 18.5 percent of Iran’s 70 million population live under the poverty line.




An Iranian head of prison told newsagency FARS that Aharprison (West-Azerbaijan) is severely overpopulated.
The small prison in Ahar has a capacity of 50 prisoners, but is housing 235 prisoners instead.
Earlier this month, the chief of Iran’s prisons Ali Akbar Yessaghi told that a prison in the city of Abadan (province Khuzestan) with a maximum capacity of 70 people was housing some 500 prisoners.



In Iran deathpenalty is in use. Also for child offenders.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl

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