Alive inhabitants of the graves in Iran ..report

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When you heard the word of graves you may become pessimistic as they always related to painful accidents and memories with people became underground . But in Iran the graves are the home of poor and drug addicts , as a number of Iranian ,because of displace and poverty, had to live in graves and take them as houses in the capital Tehran . In a report to the Iranian newspaper "Shahrvand", published on December 27, 2016,the newspaper revealed that 50 Iranians live in the graves of a cemetery, in the area of Nasir Abad, which is only an hour from the heart of the capital Tehran , in a strange scene where the graves became for the living and not for the dead only.

This preceded by an announcement for Tehran's mayor, Mohammad Ahmad Baqer Qalinav, as he said that more than 15,000 poor citizens were sleeping in cardboard boxes on the streets of the capital, including girls as young as 17. But the new is the use of these poor to live in the graves.

Witnesses said that these poor people begged all day in the streets of the capital and come to the graves at night to take shelter from the winter cold. One of them said that when the security evacuated them , he heard one of the poor people cry out and say, "Instead of spending state money on nuclear weapons and wars, give it to us" . This made Amid Farhadad to say in a tweet on Twitter "We want to live in peace like the rest of the countries, we do not want nuclear weapons or wars that are useless, we want food and safe housing"

Poverty has increased in recent years in Iran, where the official unemployment rate rose from 10.66 percent in 2014 to 12.7 percent last year, while the unemployment rate among youth (15-29 years old) was 27