Iranian regime president Ebrahim Raisi made his debut by announcing that he is going to build on million housing units per year, promising to address one of the serious challenges of Iran.
Under the rule of the mullahs, state-run news agencies play a safeguarding role to serve the Iranian regime instead of the people and make sure to avoid going too far in revealing the role that the regime plays in the miseries of tens of millions of Iranians.
These outlets write about “endless inflation”, “the most basic food needs disappearing from the people’s tables,” and “the issue of water and electricity and dust,” about “transferring the budget deficit to the stock market” and “the massive release of securities.” They keep on writing, but never tell or write about the main source and causes of these problems.
The role of the regime media in the exacerbated and incurable housing crisis is indicative of the role they play in justifying the regime’s crimes.
These days and weeks, the housing crisis in Iran is breaking the back of tenants and sometimes even leading to the breakup of families. The reason is, of course, the gang of corrupt thieves who are ruling the country and are spending the country’s wealth to keep their hold on power.
Ebrahim Raisi, who cut his political teeth on executing political prisoners in the 1980s, made a lot of fanfare about his plan to build more than 1 million homes per year. Now, two years into his presidency, the housing situation of the majority of Iranian tenants is as follows:
On July 29, the state-run Faraz website reported, “You will rarely find anyone in Iranian cities who does not have housing problems. Thousands of families have stored their furniture and become homeless. According to the latest statistics, on average, about 70% of the income of every Iranian household is spent on housing rent. The marginalized population in the country has reached 20 million people. Two years ago, the average price per square meter of housing was 330 million rials, and now it has reached 780 million rials.”
Who and what organization has caused these misfortunes and critical crises against the people of Iran? The regime will blame the “enemies of the system” and “global arrogance,” not regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei and regime leaders.
And the regime’s media couldn’t care less about what the problem is and who has caused it.
As the report by Faraz website states, “The situation has now reached a point where many families can no longer afford to rent a unit with the minimum size, and they themselves return to their parents’ house or migrate to smaller cities!”
In an insulting approach to the right of the people deserve to have housing with conventional and standard dimensions, the head of the housing department of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, did not criticize his government’s failure to solve the housing problem. Instead, he framed the problem in a way to put the onus on the peopel: “A 25-meter house is enough for minimum life”! (Source: Hammihan website, July 31)
The housing problem, like any other phenomenon that has been created by this regime, is rooted in rent, looting, theft, and totalitarianism under the rule of the corrupt mullahs. This empirical and confirmed fact can be seen from the failure to solve each and every economic, livelihood and union crisis in this regime for many years. The incurable and swollen housing crisis has the same reason.
In its article, Hammihan quoted an expert who confirmed that the regime builds homes in other countries, but in Iran due to the lack of housing, millions of people live in slums. The mullahs’ regime has monopolized all facilities closed the way for others to build housing. According to this expert, “The government starts construction in neighboring countries, but it cannot do this in Iran. The government should remove the obstacles from the path of builders and provide the necessary financial tools.”
This government not only abolished the housing privilege of 70% of the people of Iran, but for more than eight months, it has been preventing the news and statistics from being reported by official sources and authorities.
On July 31, Hammihan website wrote, “The Central Bank and Statistics Center of Iran have stopped the publication of statistics related to the housing sector since December of last year.”
In this way, housing has become completely politicized and transformed into a political tumor.