The collapse of the Iranian economy and unemployment

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The Research Center of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament) has issued a report recently about the situation of the Iranian economy, explicitly citing numerous problems.

Independent economists had previously said that the situation of the Iranian economy has been increasingly dire since the presidential elections of 2009. Reduction of investments in most fields, especially oil and gas, has worsened the economic situation with much dire circumstances expected in the future.

The report says, “The business atmosphere in Iran is extremely unfavorable compared to other countries. For example, according to the criterion of “business and employment” of the World Bank in 2010, Iran is ranked 137 among 187 countries. The ranking of the country in other categories is not must better.”

The report warns that the unfavorable loss of investments, unemployment and other problems have brought economic institutions to the brink of bankruptcy.

The economic crisis and rising unemployment is a huge threat for low-income sectors. Layoffs and lack of job security, bankruptcy of plants and factories, delays in paying salaries, a production slump, lack of independent workers’ organizations, and extreme suppression of apolitical protests are also some of the challenges for the regime.

The Majlis report refrains from explicitly citing the unemployment rate, but says, “From 1989 to 2006, the country has never had single-digit unemployment.” The report explicitly refers to the lack of investment by the private and government sectors as factors contributing to the rate of unemployment.

According to the Majlis report, the average unemployment rate in the world is 9.7 percent and 6.9 percent in the region. At the same time, some observers put that rate at 25 percent in Iran.

Another topic mentioned in the report concerns lack of economic stability in Iran. Although this problem has existed since the clerical regime’s inception, apparently the current unstable situation has made it worse.

Purchasing power of the people in Iran continues to drop. According to the Heritage Foundation, Iran is 9th among 161 countries when it comes to lack of economic freedom. “This means,” the Majlis report says, “that among the 161 countries, only 8 are worse than Iran in terms of economic freedom.” At the same time, regional neighbors are doing much better, with Turkey rated at 100th and Saudi Arabia at 80th.

The report calls on the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to enact measures to increase production and investments, while “establishing a national standards organization in Iran tied to the president’s deputy in planning and strategic supervision.” In his first term, Ahmadinejad disbanded the planning and budget organization to remove even semi-official institutions that could monitor government spending.

The Majlis report has also recommended that “the probability of confiscation of property” be reduced so that the private sector can make more investments.

The report does not mention other analysts’ views about the consequences of increasing role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the fields of manufacturing and services industries. This is among the factors that hampers private business activities and restricts competition in the Iranian economy. However, the report says that currently “underground and unproductive economy” is becoming more powerful.
Ravanews state-run website The head of the Judiciary’s Popular Staff for Social Prevention and Security in Kurdistan said, “Up to now, the death sentence for 20 people has been issued in the province on charges of narcotic trafficking and the sentence for eight of them has been carried out. “The Kurdistan Judiciary uses the most extreme punishment which has been stipulated in the law in the case of narcotics criminals”, Hasan Babayi added




صدور بيست حکم اعدام و اجراي 8 اعدام در کردستان
http://www.rawanews.com/detailsf.aspx?=News&ID=2933&Babat=5
رييس ستاد مردمي پيشگيري و حفاظت اجتماعي دادگستري استان کردستان گفت: تاکنون حکم اعدام براي ‌20 تن به اتهام "قاچاق مواد مخدر" در استان صادر شده که حکم هشت نفر از آن ها اجرا شده است.
به گزارش ايسنا، حسن بابايي در نشست مطبوعاتي به مناسبت هفته مبارزه با مواد مخدر در استانداري کردستان، اظهار کرد: دادگستري کردستان در برخورد با مجرمان مواد مخدر، حداکثر مجازاتي را که در قانون تعيين شده است، به کار مي‌برد. (روانيوز – 10/4/89)

Human Rights Activists in Iran

Rajayi Shahr prison officials have extended the detention of political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani in solitary until after the anniversary of student protests on July 9 for an unknown amount of time.
According to the reports, political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani who is detained in cellblock 1 in this prison in Karaj was transferred to solitary on May 31 for unknown reasons.
He has been kept in solitary for one month and is kept under severe conditions. Prison officials prevent him from receiving medical attention and deprive him from minimum sanitary facilities. He is allowed to bathe once a week and use the restroom once a day.





عليرغم يکماه نگهداري بهروز جاويد تهراني در سلول انفرادي / قرار تمديد شد
http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-27-21/2473-1.html
مسئولين زندان رجايي شهر کرج به درخواست وزارت اطلاعات نگهداري بهروز جاويد تهراني در سلول انفرادي را تا پايان سالگرد 18 تير ماه و به مدت نامعلومي تمديد کردند.
بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، بهروز جاويد تهراني زنداني سياسي محبوس در بند يک زندان رجايي شهر کرج که از دهم خرداد ماه سالجاري به دليل نامعلوم به سلول انفرادي منتقل شده است در آستانه سالگرد وقايع کوي دانشگاه تهران در 18 تير 78 نگهداري اين زنداني محکوم در پرونده کوي دانشگاه را در سلول انفرادي به مدت نامعلومي تمديد نمودند.
جاويد تهراني به مدت يک ماه است در سلول هاي انفرادي بند يک زندان رجايي شهر در وضعيت نامناسب و شرايط محيطي سختي به سر مي برد و مسئولين زندان از رسيدن دارو و لوازم بهداشتي به اين زنداني جلوگيري ميکنند، نامبرده در هفته يکبار حق استحمام و در طي روز نيز يکبار اجازه استفاده از سرويس بهداشتي را دارد. (هرانا – 10/4/89)

Daneshjoo News


Pedram Raf-ati, a former student activist at the Amir Kabir University in Tehran was sentenced to 2 years of prison and a 300,000 toman fine by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Salavati. He was sentenced to two years of prison on charges of assembling and conspiring to act against national security and participating in the seditions (June 15, 2009 march in Tehran). Raf-ati was also sentenced to a 300,000 toman fine for ‘using satellite equipment in his home’.





محكوميت پدرام رفعتي به دو سال حبس تعزيري و جريمه نقدي
http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-26-23/2467-1.html
پدرام رفعتي فعال سابق دانشجويي پلي تکنيک از سوي شعبه 15 دادگاه انقلاب به رياست قاضي صلواتي به دو سال حبس تعزيري و 300 هزار تومان جريمه نقدي محکوم شد.
به گزارش دانشجونيوز، دو سال حبس تعزيري اين دانشجو به اتهام اجتماع و تباني به قصد اقدام عليه امنيت ملي و شرکت در اغتشاشات صادر شده و مصداق آن حضور اين فعال دانشجويي در راهپيمايي 25 خرداد 88 ذکر شده است. دادگاه همچنين پدرام رفعتي را به 300 هزار تومان جريمه به اتهام "استفاده از تجهيزات ماهواره در منزل" محکوم کرده است. (دانشجونيوز – 10/4/89)

Human Rights Activists in Iran


The psychological and physical condition of political prisoner Hamed Rouhi Nejad who is detained in cellblock 8 in Evin Prison is critical because of the deterioration of his multiple sclerosis (MS) and lack of medical attention.
According to reports, one of his hands is completely paralyzed and he is suffering from serious problems in the eyesight of both eyes. This political prisoner is even having problems hearing. But despite his numerous problems from his disease, prison officials are completely oblivious to his illness.
This lack of attention by officials is so serious that aside from not taking him to hospital, they even refuse to give him medicine provided by the Rouhi Nejad family. It seems that officials are oblivious to the dangers of MS or at best have no knowledge about its dangers.
There is a high chance of this disease paralyzing the whole body of the victim from lack of medication.
Hamed Rouhi Nejad is a philosophy student who has been jailed since May 2009 on charges of being a member of a dissident group and has been denied even a one day medical leave from prison.
He was sentenced to death in the mass post election show trials but his sentence was commuted to 10 years of prison in a court of review.




عدم رسيدگي پزشکي / فلج تدريجي حامد روحي نژاد زنداني سياسي
http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-27-21/2471-1.html
وضعيت روحي و جسمي حامد روحي نژاد، زنداني محبوس در اندرزگاه 8 زندان اوين بر اثر تشديد بيماري "ام اس" و عدم رسيدگي پزشکي به شدت وخيم گزارش مي شود..
بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، به علت از کار افتادن حمله عصبي بيماري ام اس، يکي از دستان آقاي روحي نژاد کاملا از کار افتاده و بينايي هر دو چشم ايشان نيز با مشکل جدي مواجه شده است . اين زنداني سياسي حتي از لحاظ شنوايي نيز دچار آسيب شده است. اما عليرغم مشکلات عديده جسمي حاصل از بيماري، مسئولان زندان نسبت به بيماري اين زنداني سياسي کاملا بي تفاوت هستند.
اين بي توجهي مسولان تا جايي است که فارغ از عدم انتقال وي به بيمارستان حتي در رساندن داروهايي که خانواده ي روحي نژاد با هزينه ي شخصي براي فرزندشان تهيه کرده اند نيز کارشکني ميکنند؛ به نظر مي رسد مسئولان نسبت به خطارات بيماري ام اس بي توجه با حداقل بي اطلاع باشند.
احتمال اينکه اين بيماري در اثر عدم درمان و تشديد کل اعضاي بدن فرد را از کار افتاده کند، بسيار زياد است
حامد روحي نژاد دانشجوي رشته فلسفه، از اردي بهشت ماه سال 88 تاکنون به اتهام عضويت در يکي از گروهاي مخالف نظام در زندان نگهداري مي شود و از حق داشتن حتي يک روز مرخصي استعلاجي نيز محروم بوده است.
وي در دادگاه هاي جمعي و نمايشي حوادث پس از انتخابات محاکمه و به اعدام محکوم شده بود که نهايتاْ اين حکم در دادگاه تجديد نظر به 10 سال حبس و تبعيد تقليل يافت. (هرانا – 10/4/89)
ILNA state-run News Agency
A children’s rights activist said that according to official statistics, there are 950,000 married children in Iran and 85 percent of them are girls.
“Official sources say that there are 900,000 to 950,000 married children in Iran even as this is against the International Children’s Rights Convention”, Mohammad Banazadeh said. “The law considers children to be under 11 and considers them mentally incompetent to participate in the elections and choose a candidate but the marital age in the country is between 9 to 13 years.

وجود بيش از 900 هزار كودك متاهل در كشور
http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-29-40/2434-1.html
يك فعال حقوق كودك گفت: متاسفانه براساس آمارهاي رسمي بيش از 950 هزار كودك متاهل در كشور وجود دارد كه 85 درصد آنها دختر هستند.
محمدبنيازاده در گفت وگو با خبرنگار ايلنا با اعلام اينكه در مورد همسران كودك يا كودك همسرها آمارهاي گوناگوني وجود دارد تا كيد كرد: منابع رسمي حكايت از وجود 900 تا 950 هزار كودك همسر در كشور دارد اين در حالي است كه چنين اتفاقاتي در حوزه كودكان برخلاف كنوانسيون بين‌الملل حقوق كودك است.
او با بيان اينكه آمارهاي غير رسمي به واقعيتهاي ديگري در اين حوزه اشاره دارد، ادامه داد: قانون از يك سو كودك را زير 11 سال مي‌داند و آن را در فرايند انتخابات، فاقد توانايي تفكر، ‌تعقل و تصميم گيري براي انتخاب كانديدا مي‌داند اما سن ازدواج در كشور از سنين 9تا 13 سالگي تعريف مي‌شود. (ايلنا – 9/4/89)
Jaras

Javid Haj Hemati, a student activist in the Khajeh Nasir University in Tehran was tried in the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Moqiseh on June 30.
According to reports, this is while he had not received a summons to be present in trial and was called and told to go to the Revolutionary Court to complete his case. He defended himself without a lawyer in this trial. Haj Hemati was arrested on December 7, 2009 after being summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence and was detained for 70 days in cellblocks 240, 209 and 350 of Evin Prison





برگزاري دادگاه جاويد حاج‌همتي، بدون حضور وکيل
دادگاه جاويد حاج همتي، فعال دانشجويي دانشگاه خواجه نصير امروز چهارشنبه، نهم تيرماه در شعبه 28 دادگاه انقلاب به رياست قاضي مقيسه برگزار شد.
بنا به گزارش‌هاي رسيده به جرس، اين دادگاه در حالي برگزار شد که پيش از اين احضاريه‌اي به دست اين فعال دانشجويي نرسيده و تنها با تماس تلفني از او خواسته شده بود که براي تکميل پرونده به دادگاه انقلاب مراجعه کند و در اين جلسه او به تنهايي و بدون حضور وکيل به دفاع از خود پرداخت.
جاويد حاج همتي در 16 آذر سال گذشته در پي احضار به دفتر پيگيري وزارت اطاعات بازداشت شد و 70 روز را در بندهاي 240، 209و 350 زندان اوين گذراند. (جرس – 10/4/89)
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