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Iran is experiencing unprecedented economic conditions as unemployment and poverty have risen to unprecedented levels, amid the regime’s inability to cope with the crises afflicting the Iranian economy.
Criticizing proposed plans to increase Iran’s population, Mahabad’s representative in the Iranian parliament, Jalal Mahmoud Zadeh, said that young Iranians have no choice but to leave the country in the absence of work.
He then added, criticizing that “some people are still trying to increase the population.”
Zadeh was referring to an MP who suggested promoting population growth by urging young people to marry.
The man said that the unemployment rate in many disadvantaged provinces of Iran was more than 25 percent and that there are four out of five unemployed people in some families.
He also said: “We have already paralyzed Covid-19 and we do not have the administrative capabilities to deal with it.”
Zadeh explained that Iran does not have an infrastructure even for the current population, adding that disadvantaged areas of the country suffered from a lack of income and therefore Iran should not seek to increase its population.
This comes after the majority of the deputies approved the parliamentary proposal “Protection of youth and the family”.
A parliamentary “specialized committee” will study the proposal and approve it without discussion in the Council Chamber.
If approved in committee, the parliamentary proposal will go directly to the Guardian Council for final approval.
The representative of the Kermanshah province in the magazine, Zahra Al Hayyan, said that Iran will have “the largest population in the world by age in the next twenty years.
Then he continued: “The next five to ten years provide us with a golden opportunity to tackle the problem of population growth that we must take advantage of.”
While one MP stated, while one MP claimed that Iran’s population would drop to 30 million people by 2100, “fifty percent of them will be elderly,” as he put it.
While reliable studies say, according to Radio Farda, Iran’s population in 2100 will be between 62 million and 70 million people, with the current trend.
In recent years, Iranian leader Ali Khamenei has emphasized the need to increase Iran’s population, warning of the aging of the nation.
Rather, he called for increasing the population to 150 million, while Iran’s population is currently 83 million.
On July 11, 2018, Khamenei claimed that birth control is a “Western policy” and said: “They want to deprive Islamic countries of a large population, dynamic youth and human resources.”
In recent years, poor economic conditions and widespread social problems in Iran have led to a general lack of motivation to have children.
Official government statistics in Iran show that between thirty and forty percent of Iranians currently live below the poverty line.
However, Iranian officials have introduced “special plans” to encourage people to have more children.
And last June, Deputy Minister of Family and Population Health Hamid Barakati indicated that Iran’s population growth rate had fallen below 1 percent for the first time in the past four decades.
According to Barakati, the drop came despite the ministry stopping providing “contraceptive services” and postponing its earlier suggestion that people leave a space of three years before having new children.
