Asharq Al-Awsat, 8 Dec. 2016- Shocking footage of homeless people spending their nights in empty graves outs ide Iran’s capital surfaced, shocking the cleric-led regime. Shahrvand daily had first issued a report touching on the subject on Tuesday.
Images were shot in Shahriar, some 20 kilometers west of Tehran, and published in the Shahrvand daily, which said some 50 men, women and children living in the cemetery.
Homeless people spending their nights in empty graves outs ide Iran’s capita.
The photographs only highlighted the never-ending economic struggles that hunt Iranians today. Some of those who lived in the graves had done so for 10 years, according to the daily.
The story and the haunting images of the homeless staring into the camera from inside the unused grave slots spread quickly on social media, where users and celebrities reacted with expressions of alarm and sadness.
One of the many homeless dwellers in a cemetery in the town of Shahriar, near Iran’s capital Tehran.
Unemployment is fairly high in Iran, not to mention that its currency has fallen drastically against the U.S. dollar leaving many citizens in dire situations.
In one of the images published this week, a grime-streaked man rises out of a grave, smoke from a fire providing warmth inside rising around him. Others gather for warmth, smoking.
