NCRI – The minimum monthly cost of living for Iranian workers has been set at $700 for next year.
Although the amount has not yet reached the final approval, but state-run media are confessing that the regime is too bankrupt to be able to meet that, warning over more factory closures and layoffs.
The intense protests and pressures by workers finally made some regime’s organizations to admit that the workers’ minimum wage in the current situation should be three times its current amount.
With $700 announced as the minimum monthly cost of living for an average worker household, media close to Rouhani’s faction reflected regime’s insolvency while pointing to more interaction with western countries as the only way out of the current crisis.
“Although increasing the minimum wage abruptly and by an unacceptable amount, from $230 to $700, is going to be a big help for workers, but due to country’s heavy recession, the employers are unable to pay such an amount to their workforce”, writes the state-run Jahan-e-Sanat newspaper on March 1.
“Tripling the minimum wage will result in closure of production units due to their inability to meet workers’ wages, as well as widespread workforce layoffs and adjustments which will lead to more workers being out of work in the long run. Thus, it’s going to burn both the skewer and the kebab, meaning that production will be destroyed and workers will lose their job as well”, the newspaper says.
“Our big industries like auto manufacturing are so low in quality that it’s been years they’re on the verge of bankruptcy”, adds the newspaper.
The newspaper then points to the nuclear deal, saying “it’s more than a year since the nuclear deal has been enacted, but its results are not clearly visible in the community. Some claim that despite sanctions being lifted, other countries are still refusing to collaborate with us.”