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Iran’s housing crisis is another proof of Raisi’s incompetence and corruption

Forty-four years have passed since the mullahs hijacked Iran’s 1979 revolution and promised to bring equality and prosperity to Iranians. Now, citizens of one of the world’s richest nations are forced to live on rooftops.

“If people want to be close to cities, they should camp on rooftops, and their situation worsens daily as authorities fail to control inflation. This phenomenon will spread so rapidly that soon we will cities surrounded by shanty towns,” the state-run Roydad-e 24 wrote on May 13.

A few days after coming to power, the regime’s founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, deceptively said: “We wouldn’t just build houses. We will give free water and electricity to the poor. We will make public transportation free for them.” Yet, he soon proved that what really lost its value was human lives as he sent tens of thousands of youths to the gallows or used many more as canon fodders during the Iran-Iraq war.

Loyal to their heritage, Khomeini’s successors continue worsening people’s lives through oppression and corruption. Like their founder, they make hollow promises to deceive a restive society that yearns for its basic rights.

After coming to office, Ebrahim Raisi, the regime’s current president, made much fanfare about “building a million housing units a year,” “eradicating absolute poverty in two weeks,” and “controlling inflation and prices.” Two years into his presidency, he has realized none of his promises, but he continues lying.

“The new phenomenon of people living on rooftops or sharing houses in Tehran spread daily, parallel to Raisi government’s promises of building one million housing units,” The state-run Arman-e Meli newspaper wrote on May 14.

“Some cannot even rent a house in the south of Tehran’s most impoverished neighborhoods. Renting a 50-meter house in Naziabad requires 1 billion rials of leasing and 100 million rials per month. Other than this, people must sleep on rooftops, share houses, or live in shanty towns,” the paper adds.

Raisi hasn’t just failed in building a million houses in a year, according to the state-run 90 Eghtesadi on May 14, “The latest report of Iran’s Statistics Center indicates the housing construction in the capital reached its lowest level in the last 23 years.”

“No house has been built, and normally, a minister should be impeached for this dire situation. But three ministries do not have a minister, while inflation soars and no one can outrun the rapid pace of its growth,” Roydad-e 24 wrote on May 15.

In the past two years, Raisi has proven his complete incompetence in handling even the most fundamental challenges faced by the nation. As a key player of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s “consolidated system,” Raisi’s primary objective has been to suppress any form of dissent, leaving him devoid of any inclination or capability to tackle the pressing economic crisis gripping the country.

Therefore, he has been firing his ministers and blames them for the country’s financial calamity. But he is only pulling wool over his own eyes, as everyone knows all crises are the result of the corruption in the regime in its entirety, not one or two figures.

“Raisi dismissed Central Bank Chief Saleh Abadi, but a dollar equals to 500,000 rials. Abdolmaleki is booted from the Ministry of Labor, but according to Iran’s Statistic Center, unemployment rate set a new record. The average housing prices continue to rise, regardless of Rostam Ghasemi [former Minister of Urban Development] leaving office and Mehrdad Bazrpash taking his place,” the state-run Rooze-no wrote on April 18.

“Abdolmaleki was supposed to create a million jobs, and Ghasemi was supposed to build a million houses a year, Masoud Mirkazemi [head of Budget and Planning Organization] was supposed to resolve the budget issue, and other officials make innovations. They all have been fired, and Ghasemi died in China. It seems the problem will be resolved only if Raisi resigns,” the outlet added.

For the Iranian people, mere removal of a handful of officials will not suffice to address the issue at hand. The relentless protests and fervent uprising that ignited last September have unequivocally revealed that the Iranian people firmly believe that the sole path to vanquish their profound sufferings lies in dismantling the despotic regime responsible for inflicting such anguish upon them.

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