‘6 million Iranians struggling to provide food for the dinner table’

 At least six million Iranians are struggling to provide food on the kitchen table each day, according to a member of the outgoing Parliament of the mullahs’ regime.

“At least six million people in the country are struggle to bring bread to the dinner table each day,” Mohammad Ismaeil Saidi on Monday told the Basij News website, operated by the regime’s paramilitary Basij force.

“While the monthly income for pensioners is under 6 million Rials (U.S. $198) and several people in a given family are struggling to bring bread to the table, some managers are earning huge wages,” he said.

Last week, the Iranian regime’s Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare admitted that some five million people in Iran are on the verge of malnutrition.

"According to the charts showing the distribution of wealth in the country, a percentage of the population are very poor, and some four to five million people are on the verge of malnutrition," Ali Rabiee told an annual meeting of General-Practitioners on May 11.

Rabiee’s admission came a month after the regime’s parliament eliminated cash subsidies for 24 million people on April 12, thereby increasing pressure on a population the majority of which is living below the poverty line.

Last week, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a statement that Iranian youths are falling victim to the astronomical plundering and tyranny of the mullahs’ regime.

“The majority of the Iranian people are living under the poverty line, and the hungry masses are even unable to provide for their most basic needs and that of their families. According to the regime’s officials, 70% of the people in the cities and villages of Iran live under the poverty line, and the minimum wage of laborers is several fold under the poverty line that has been announced by the regime itself,” the NCRI said.

The speaker of the regime’s parliament Ali Larijani has stipulated: “Currently, around $20 billion smuggled goods enter the country and no factory is able to compete with that. Smuggling is hurting production and standards.”

At the helm of such smuggling are none other than the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the corrupt and criminal institutions associated with him, the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), and other officials of the regime, the NCRI statement added.