Faramarz Tofighi, a labor activist in Iran, believes that increasing the approved wages will have no effect on improving the conditions and eliminating the disparity between income and expenses, and for this reason, one should not wait for an increase in gross national product.
Tofighi told the regime’s ILNA news agency that under these conditions, there is no inclination to employ young people aged 19 to 28, and there will be no motivation for production.
According to Tofighi, the wages are unfairly set, and the government is continuously evading the law.
He described the Labor Minister of Ebrahim Raisi’s government as the “flagbearer of lawlessness” and emphasized that the minister not only does not consider Article 41 of the Labor Law important but also sees himself above the law and has claimed that the labor law should be amended.
Criticism of the Iranian regime’s approach to the decline in income from expenses and the economic crisis has peaked in recent weeks, and media reports indicate that the economic crisis is turning into social crises and an increase in various types of crimes.
On April 8, the state-run Ham-mihan newspaper wrote that theft from supermarkets and stores selling food and groceries has increased.
According to Ham-mihan, the level of peddling has also increased, and this trend has increased compared to two or three years ago.
According to the majority of economic experts, the main factor in the increase in theft in Iran is the economic issues. Based on this, in June 2023, Masoud Sistani, the spokesman for the judiciary, announced an increase in the level of thefts.
Iran’s Statistical Center also announced in spring 2023 that the rate of theft has been on the rise, so much so that theft is the second major crime in the country after drug trafficking.
Ham-mihan newspaper also emphasizes that a review of statistics shows that theft has quadrupled in recent years. Alongside this, there has been a significant increase in commodity prices.
Statistics from the Statistical Center in 2023 indicated that “in the red and white meat group, with 85.5%, fish and seafood with 67.4%, tea, coffee, cocoa, soft drinks, and fruit juice with 46.3%, and fruits and nuts with 44.8%, in September 2023 compared to the same month of the previous year, had the highest increase in prices.”
