Alireza Abbasi, the head of the Literacy Movement Organization, stated that there are 7.4 million “absolute illiterate” individuals in the age group of six years and above.
This statement contradicts Alireza Abbasi’s previous statement on December 23, where he claimed that literacy development in Iran had reached 98%, which is inconsistent with the figure of 7.4 million absolute illiterates.
Alireza Abbasi announced the number of absolute illiterates in the age group of 10 to 49 as 1.707 million and for the age group of 6 years and above as 7.4 million.
The literacy trend in Iran, especially among children and adolescents, is facing a serious threat from “increased poverty.”
In this regard, the Statistical Center of the Iranian regime announced in October 2023 that at least “556,000 Iranian adolescents” were forced to “drop out of school” before entering high school due to reasons primarily related to “poverty and deprivation.”
Ali Asghar Fani, the former Minister of Education, also cited the statistics from the Research Center of the regime’s Parliament on September 10, stating that the number of “school dropouts” in Iran is “930,000 individuals,” who are considered the “illiterate future.”
The Statistical Center emphasized in its report that due to the expansion of poverty and further reduction in children’s access to educational resources and facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the deprivation of Iranian children from education has intensified.
Every year, at the end of September, millions of students in Iran go back to school. But unfortunately, every year, many families were forced to send their children to work instead of school because they are not able to pay the costs of their child’s education.
The Iranian regime’s treacherous policies towards the education system has created a real national crisis.
Presently, the question is, in circumstances that the country is suffering from lack of teachers and poor education management and infrastructure, why does the mullahs’ regime employ the millions of university graduates who are living in the streets and are begging to make ends meet?
Truly, why do Iranian officials steal from the budget of the education ministry under different pretexts, while they should be concerned about educating the future generations of Iran? Why are they spending the country’s assets to wage war in the region and carry out terrorist plots, while they should be spending it on building the country, building schools for kids and hiring teachers to educate them?
The answer to all those questions is that the mullahs have one priority, and that is preserving their own rule at all costs, even the cost of destroying the country’s present and future.
