Iran: The empire of drug , poverty and corruption!‏

Drugs

According to official reports, addicts and drug dealers account for 46% of the total number of prisoners in Iran. The annual drug trade cycle in Iran exceeds 200 billion Iranian riyals, about six billion dollars.

Iranian society suffers from many crises , most notably is drug addiction and its spreading among women, girls and children. According to Iranian President assistance for Women and Family Affairs Shahindkht Moulandi, the rate of girls 'addiction to drugs has risen since 2012, and it up to 9% of Iran's addicts .

The head of the drug control in Iran, Mohammad Masoud Zahedian, said that there are about 50 thousand drug addicts in Iran, including about 15,000 people in the capital Tehran, and drug addiction spreads in the industrial environment more than any other environment, and there is between 16 to 22% of hard-working workers are drug addicts in Iran.

According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in Iran, 70 to 100 people a day are added to the number of drug addicts in the country, which according to unofficial statistics amounted to more than 6 million, of which dozens die every day due to excessive addiction or diseases . 

"Said Saffatian, head of the Task Force on Reducing the Addiction Rate of the Expediency Council, has confirmed that the number of addicts who sleep on the streets has risen from 120,000 to 150,000 displaced people.

Iran is classified as one of the world's most drug-buying countries and one of the world's largest producers of heroin. According to international reports, it is the largest buyer of drugs from Afghanistan and then re-exported to other countries under the supervision of Revolutionary Guards officers.

Poverty

The statistics center and the Ministry of Labor and Welfare of Iran revealed that 8% of the Iranian population lives on less than $ 60 a month, less than $ 2 a day, and 40% of Iranians are under the extreme poverty line ,according to government estimates. Civil society organizations in Iran and independent specialists said that this rate and this percentage increased significantly during the second term of President Ahmadinejad and the beginning of the presidential term Rohani to much higher rates .

But Iranian experts estimate this figure more than 60%, and said that 25% of Iranians live in shantytowns because they can not afford to pay rent, which exceeds the average monthly salary in Iran, 10 million Iranian riyals or about 300 dollar and according to Iranian Statistics Center, the cost of living for a family of four people in major cities, smaller towns and villages is $ 800, $ 600 and $ 300, respectively, but the average salary in Iranian cities does not exceed $ 350 per month. This means that households face more than 50% deficit in its budget to cover the cost of daily life, and that situation for workers, who make up the largest proportion of the Iranian labor market, is much worse. The monthly salary rate for workers does not exceed $ 250 per month, meaning that the worker and his family can live ten days of the full month with this salary.

According to the estimates of the Iranian Red Crescent, which pointed out that some Iranian families are forced to sell their children at very low prices ranging between 120 and 300 dollars because of extreme poverty or addiction, and that some institutions and women addicts have children to sell them in order to get very small amounts between 120 and 150 dollars, despite that they suffer from severe physical exhaustion and weakness due to drug abuse.

It added that Iran ranks 58 out of the 82 developing countries in terms of poverty, this is because the government of Tehran continues to support its expansionist projects to support terrorist groups. This is a disaster for the Iranian people whose country has a large amount of oil and gas and a number of other resources such as phosphates, iron and mining materials.