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Akbar Torkan, president Rouhani’s consultant announced that: “Two more income brackets have dropped under the poverty line and the middle class has been reduced from 6 income brackets to four, while their income has reduced by half in value.”
According to Tasnim News, Akbar Torkan stated that: “the two lower income brackets have increased to four” and added: “In such a society that poverty is so widespread, you see million-dollar cars parading in the streets.”
Torkan confessed that “the economic growth of the country is lower than predicted”, and explained: “We have over 3.5 million unemployed waiting to join the labor market. Meanwhile, our maximum capacity for creating jobs would be 700000 a year.”
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