Calling people trash for wanting a better standard of living is pretty ignorant.
Violent riots never brought about "better standards of living".
And when powerful foreign enemies that have been funding and therefore controlling the entire opposition, are waiting for the slightest chance to tear the country apart, then any decisive weakening or worse, collapse of the central governmental authority will usher in lasting destruction and calamity across the board, certainly not in prosperity and development of any sort.
Currently at least a third of all Iranians live below the poverty line. That's the official government narrative. However various government sources inside Iran claim that the majority of Iranians are currently living below the poverty line.
No, data published by authoritative specialized institutions constitutes the only credible source to go by. "Various sources" is synonymous with political bias and opportunism, as well as with a lack of appropriate technical means required to measure nationwide macroeconomic indicators.
Moreover it is an eminently temporary situation, conditioned as it exclusively is by the current inflation rate (which is lower in Iran than it is in Turkey by the way, where some estimates put it as high as 300%). Most of Iran's other macroeconomic indicators are perfectly satisfactory. When it comes to the inflation, it has varied significantly over the course of Iran's modern history. It's nothing that cannot or will not be fixed.
Realistically it's not easy doing business in Iran. Currently Iran is ranked 128 out of 190 nations globally in the ease of doing business index.
According to a fundamentally subjective assessment of questionable scientific value (an issue shared by all rankings of this kind), published by an NGO serving western imperialist interests. Not telling at all.
Iran with the level of education & resources at its disposal should & could be on par with Germany or Canada in terms of GDP & living standards. Iran could very well have a GPD of 5 trillion or more. That could happen within a decade if the right policies were implemented & if Iran could trade freely with the rest of the world. Instead minimum wage is currently around $100 a month, half of what it is in Turkey.
Out of touch and pretty baseless assertion, geared to incite people against their government by skewing their expectations and thereby playing into the zionist and NATO agenda of "regime change" - a euphemism for engineered social and national annihilation, as witnessed in recent decades through the examples of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, to keep it to countries of the broader region.
In the real world, there are countless factors at play beyond education levels and natural resources. If it was this simple, a majority of nations on the planet would have GDP levels similar to Germany as we speak. Concerning abundant energy resources, these do not represent an opportunity but an impediment to development as demonstrated by serious economic studies. Also, GDP is not really the be all end all when it comes to evaluating living standards.
As a matter of fact, in terms of how sharply her HDI (UN Human Development Index) increased over the past 44 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran is ranking approximately among the 75th or 80th percentile i.e. among the top quarter or the leading 20% of all nations worldwide. An achievement which is not only impressive but would actually have been hard to beat even with superior policies. The Islamic Republic's sustained efforts resulted in Iran being now ranked a country of high human development by the UN.
To eliminate any doubt in this regard, Iran is actually more developed than China, given her HDI of 7,774 versus China's 7,768 in 2021.
44 years ago, a third of all Iranians could not read or write & large segments were living in rural settings. The current government has done alot and surely deserves credit for their achievements. On the other hand, looking at graphs, the literacy rate was already on an upwards trajectory before the revolution
Compared to the Pahlavi era, literacy in Iran improved at a significantly superior pace after the victory of the Islamic Revolution (plus 47 percentage points in 44 years of Islamic Republic versus 35 percentage points during 58 long years of British- and American-imposed Pahlavi rule).
and the economy was much more stable under the Pahlavi establishment.
From the start until the end of the Pahlavi reign, the Rial went from around 20 against the dollar to 70 by 1979. From 1979 until today it's gone from 70 to around 500,000 now. Not that long ago it was in the 270,000 range.
As if the national currency's exchange rate to the US dollar was the central barometer of economic stability. Not only is this untrue, but in terms of exchange rates the Iranian rial was actually experiencing hopeless over-valuation following the 1973 oil boom because Iran's essentially mono-sectorial, insufficiently diversified economy came to be affected head on by the Dutch Disease, which inadequate policies of the Pahlavi regime blatantly failed to moderate. The over-valuation of the rial ruined the competitivity of non-oil sectors and hampered investment in therein.
It wasn't long before economic over-heating led to a full fledged economic crisis. Indeed, Iran's GDP saw a negative growth of -2,8% in 1977, only four years after the sudden spike in oil prices, and down from >18% in 1976. This sudden shock is considered by some historians as one of several triggers to the Islamic Revolution. Others attribute fewer importance to the immediate economic conjuncture but what this highlights at any rate, is that economic growth and development under the shah regime was far less linear as certain uninformed narratives would have us believe.
