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April 21, 2026

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A Tragic Tale: Selling Body Parts to Survive/ Moein Khazaee

This is an undeniable fact that poverty not only affects the economic conditions of society, but also has an impact on the social life of citizens. The decrease in purchasing power of citizens leads to changes in their previous social habits, such as allocating expenses for leisure, clothing, suitable food, health and medical care, and […]...

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Created By: Moein Khazaeli
January 21, 2022

Smuggling, idle car fuel / Samireh Hanaei

“Smuggling of Iranian white oil to the Emirates. This headline has not yet caused any controversy in any news agency. However, it will soon find a place for itself in the news agencies. Fuel smuggling from Hormozgan to neighboring countries is not a new subject. Although occasional news from southern law enforcement authorities about the […]...

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Created By: Samireh Hanai
January 21, 2022

Living in a state of poverty/ Mandana Sadeghi

When talking about working children or garbage-collecting children, authorities immediately announce eighty or eighty-five percent of these children as illegal foreign nationals to the media and report on their living conditions, work, laws, or lack thereof, to prevent the employment of foreign nationals. Government institution statistics estimate the number of garbage-collecting children in Tehran to […]...

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Created By: Mandana Sadeghi
January 21, 2022

Emerging occupations due to poverty in Iran/ Saeideh Shafiei

These days, with the spread of poverty, new jobs have emerged in the Iranian economy. In this regard, the focus is on examining the emerging jobs caused by poverty. Initially, statistical evidence related to poverty and unemployment is mentioned from official reports. Then, some jobs and employment trends in the Iranian economy are discussed. High […]...

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Created By: Saeideh Shafiei
January 21, 2022

Waste collection; the last resort for the unemployed/ Kioumarth Amiri

The phenomenon of waste picking in the global market, especially in Iran, does not have a long history. This false profession emerged about three decades ago, following the lack of fair distribution of facilities and the widening gap between social classes, and with the increase of poverty and unemployment in Iranian society, it has become […]...

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Created By: Kiomars Amiri
January 21, 2022

“Mian-buri to death; Koolbari in border areas; the result of people being pushed to the margins due to unemployment/ Bahar Abbasi”“Death in the middle; smuggling in border regions; the consequence of people being marginalized due to unemployment/ Bahar Abbasi”

The term “Kolbar” is a painful one for people due to the occurrence of some bitter events, such as the killing and death of Kolbars in the snowy mountains of Kurdistan. It is a pain that is caused by the lack of jobs, factories and workshops in their hometowns, and the deprivation of any remedy […]...

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Created By: Bahar Abbasi
January 21, 2022

Poverty, need, and false occupations of this era and time / Morteza Hamounian

More than six years ago, official media in the Islamic Republic of Iran reported on a historic explosion of false jobs in the job market. These media outlets reported on 23 million workers in the Iranian job market, of which, according to the then Minister of Labor, seven million were engaged in false jobs. (1) […]...

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Created By: Admin
January 21, 2022

Street vendors and wanderers; employed or hidden unemployed?/ Keyumars Karimi

False occupations, whose main cause is chronic unemployment and deep-rooted poverty in underdeveloped countries (third world), have been plaguing our society for years; pseudo-employment that is neither a legitimate job nor has the support of organizations such as associations, unions, syndicates, etc. that can defend its members. It is neither a job with sufficient income […]...

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Created By: Kiomars Karimi
January 21, 2022

False occupation, another bread for validating government officials/ Fariborz Kalantari

False occupation is one of those attractive titles that many presidential and parliamentary candidates have sought to benefit from by showing their concern for it. These days, the situation of unemployment and lack of job has reached a point where people turn to fake jobs to escape unemployment. In other words, unemployment has reached such […]...

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Created By: Fariborz Kalantari
January 21, 2022

The relationship between hidden unemployment and the illegitimacy of the political system / Akbar Zarei Nezhad.

Understanding the scientific perspective on sociological issues is difficult for the general public; because social scientists are unable to properly explain the social issues of a society while also connecting with the public. One of the concepts that is particularly difficult for the public to define in Iranian society is unemployment and who is considered […]...

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Created By: Akbar Zarein ‌Rizi
January 21, 2022

Review of the first draft of the main government budget; against the people, in favor of special institutions/ Masoud Kazemi.

“We must make tough and courageous decisions.” This sentence was expressed by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Speaker of Parliament, in a joint session between the Parliament and the government regarding the budget for the year 1401. The decisions that Ghalibaf refers to and some other officials also call “economic surgery” seem inevitable given the economic […]...

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Created By: Admin
January 21, 2022

“Remaining toxins in products, a warning for consumption inside/Mohammad Memandzadeh”

Iranian agricultural products, after being exported to several regional countries, were returned to Iran. According to activists and experts in this field, the reason for the return of these products was the presence of remaining pesticides and heavy metals. The consequences of this return have affected both domestic farmers and exporters, which could lead to […]...

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Created By: Mohammad Mamandzadeh
January 21, 2022