It's the opposite, healthy demographic growth takes precedence over specific economic challenges because:
* Demographic decline is irreversible while sectorial economic deficiencies are not.
* Demographic decline itself (and its corollary, excessive ageing of the population) is damaging to the economy much more than under-production of food or imperfections in the education system.
These two points represent academic consensus among experts in demographic studies and economists specializing on the issue, based on concrete field research. There's no denying the firm conclusions of this body of work.
* Time has run out already. Iran either acts now with radical measures in support of the family and to boost fertility rates (which the Raisi administration is doing, remains to be seen if it'll be sufficient), or in a very few decades the country will be faced with a strict binary choice:
a) either economic collapse (real collapse, i.e. nothing like any of the hardships experienced thus far), or
b) opening borders to mass immigration from culturally alien lands because potential migrants from the neighborhood, too small in numbers, are unlikely to cut it. Which in turn would imply the death of Iranian nationhood and identity (something that is actually part of the liberal globalist agenda, hence the efforts of the reformist and moderate front in Iran to prevent healthy demographic development).
