The average age of drug addiction amoung women in Iran is allarming

The average age of prevalence in women has decreased to 23 and this has been equal to the mens age of prevalence to drug use

This is a picture of women in the rule of the mullahs.

IRAN, 12 July 2017--  Today, it is no secret that the verity of social injustice and vast public crises stems from the rule of the mullahs and their anti-human policies imposed on the people for nearly four decades.

                                      Addiction Is Rising Among Women in Iran 

 According to official statistics released by the Iranian Government, 345,000 people in the country are considered to be methamphetamine addicts

The phenomenon of addiction is just one of the most horrible pages of this inhumane rule, especially among the poor, the city slum dwellers where there is a direct link between the poverty and the spread of addiction.

 The following story reveals an unimaginable dimensions of drug addiction in Iran:

The director of the Center for Prevention and Treatment of Addicts admitted that the average age of drug prevalence among the women decreased to 23 while the previous figure shows the age of drug addicts from 16 to 29.

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Farid Baratisadeh on July 8, 2017, stipulated, 'According to the previous figures,9 to 10% of the country's drug addicts were women and according to prevalence statistics, this number has reached 12%-13% recently.'

Farid Baratisadeh further added, 'The average age of drug use was from 16 to 29 but the current statistics show that the average age of prevalence in women has decreased to 23 and this has been equal to the men's age of prevalence to drug use.'

The Number of Drug Addicts in Iran

On June 24, 2017, the Spokesman of Iran's Drug-Combat Headquarters claimed that the number of drug addicts reaches to 2 million and 808 million. He stated, 'The experts of the Ministry of Health, the Welfare Organization, and the Drug-Combat Headquarters hold the view that the prevalence of addiction has reached 2 million and 808 thousand, according to the reports. However, the official statistics of the Drug-Combat Headquarters show that there are only 1 million and 325 thousand drug addicts in the country.'

                             

                                  Addiction Is Rising Among Women in Iran 

'The Ministry of Health has announced that the prevalence of addiction has been estimated at 3.6 million people.', said Parviz Afshar.

Did the clerical regime actually present the accurate figures on June 24, 2017?

The regime's authorities evade presenting exact figures in the country. Therefore, different figures are presented by each year.

After years of waiting to know the number of drug addicts in the country, the Spokesman of the Drug-Combat Headquarters in a recent statement on June 24, 2017, announced in a press interview that there are 2 million and 808 drug addicts in the country. However, the Head of the Committee to Combats Drugs (affiliated to the Expediency Council), Ali Hashemi announced that this number reaches 4 million.

                                 

Continuing education has been popular among Iranian women . The numbers of private universities and admitted students have risen. But upon completing...

On June 24, 2017, IRNA News quoted the Director of the Task Force on Reducing Addiction, Saeed Sefatian, reporting that ' The recent figure (2 million and 808 thousand addicts) announced recently is not real and reliable. Nearly 10 million people are involved in drugs and 20% to 30% of addicts must be added to this list as well.

                               

                                            Young drug users in Iran

ILNA News on June 26, 2017, also quoted the member of the Parliament's Social Committee, Salman Khodadadi. In response to the new studies on the state of addiction in the country and the recent figure (2 million and 808 thousand addicts) presented in the country, He stated, 'According to the current reports, the social harms on women have increased and the age of addiction has decreased. The figure was presented according to the observations in the population aged 15-60. This means that no serious work has been done on the status of drug addiction in the schools until now. The drug use is not considered at an earlier age. The reported figures are far from the reality.'

Source:The average age of drug addiction amoung women in Iran is allarming

Why the Iranian regime is incapable of reforming from within

A great article & must read

By F. Mahmoudi

 to Al Arabiya EnglishThursday, 13 July 2017

The unprecedented strength of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Paris and Albania has severely alarmed the Iranian regime. It has also raised a pertinent question, can the Iranian regime be reformed within?

The signs so far are not encouraging. Tehran sent its foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, to Paris to prevent the annual gathering of opposition figures. As French officials found the regime’s position very weak, they ended up signing a contract for the benefit of the French oil giant Total.

Hossein Shariatmadari, editor-in-chief Kayhan daily, known as the mouthpiece of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, wrote an article titled “Humiliated and Rewarded”, which mentioned the Total contract being signed at the same time as the PMOI gathering in Paris.

“The remarks of former French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner at a PMOI meeting one day after Zarif’s return from France is another sign of the French government's insistence on humiliating our nation,” he wrote.

Zarif in France

At the gathering in Paris, Kouchner said: “Zarif was welcomed in France yesterday. I do not want to blame French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. We are an old republic, and on this basis we can welcome everyone and accept him in our country, but perhaps we should do the right thing at the right time”.

He said that in his opinion, welcoming Zarif the day before this gathering was not a good idea. “But we are very happy and proud that in fact the government did not publish a general statement about Mr. Zarif’s visit,” Shariatmadari wrote.

In 2003, the Chirac government provided huge concessions to the Iranian regime and attacked the opposition headquarters in Avers-sur-Oise with a pseudo-coup. Dozens of PMOI members and activists, including their leader Maryam Rajavi, were arrested and imprisoned. This attack was a disgrace to democracy and human rights, and yet was severely defeated and defamed.

PMOI’s strength

The annual PMOI gathering was held on July 1 at the Villepinte convention hall, northeast of Paris. Tens of thousands of supporters from all over the world gathered to attend this gathering. As the hall did not have the capacity to accommodate all participants, thousands remained outside the hall.

A gathering in Tirana, the capital of Albania, was held to join the Paris summit via satellite. Nearly 3,000 PMOI members who relocated from Iraq to Albania attended this gathering.

This huge rally represents the PMOI’s strength despite being in exile. It shows their capability of organizing such a large gathering and hosting hundreds of political and parliamentary figures from all over the world.

Maryam Rajavi, the main speaker of this gathering, is an influential leader of this Muslim-democratic movement who believes in gender equality and pluralism. In her speech she emphasized on three essential facts.

Freedom and liberty

It seems the light of change is shining on Iran. The ruling regime is in disarray and the Iranian society is simmering with discontent. These circumstances, she said, highlight three fundamental truths related to freedom and liberty in Iran, as well as peace and tranquility in the region.

First, according to her, is that the overthrow of the regime is an imperative. Second, this overthrow is within reach. And third, a democratic alternative and an organized resistance exists, which is capable of toppling the theocracy in Iran.

The message and purpose of this gathering, according to the participants, consisting mainly of the youth and some recently arriving from Iran, was literally a declaration of war against the regime. The people of Iran and the region can only be freed of their misery when the regime is overthrown.

There is also a political and social appeal to all countries, especially those in the region, who are suffering at the hands of the Iranian regime.

Its track record suggests that the regime has so far shown regressive nature and cannot be reformed from within. In a recent speech, Khamenei himself warned that any change in the system’s behavior means changing the whole system.

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