Iran's suicide rate has climbed 17 percent in two years, with 10 Iranians on average taking their lives every day, a government official announced Wednesday.
Ahmad Shaja'i, the country’s chief of forensic medicine, told the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) that suicides increased nearly 5 percent since last year, with 952 Iranians taking their lives during the first quarter of the Iranian year, which began in March, compared with 870 the same time last year. More than 70 percent of the suicides were men.
Mehrdad Khonsari, a former Iranian diplomat, told The Media Line that suicide rates in Iran have always been higher than in the West, but that the aggravated economic and social conditions may have contributed to the new peak, mainly among the country's youth.
"Iranians don't live a normal life," Khonsari told The Media Line. "There are barriers to interaction between youth, forced marriages, and many young couples must live with their parents because they can't afford housing."
Iran's population of 71.5 million has doubled since 1975, leaving its young population to struggle with the unofficial unemployment rates estimated to be as high as 30 percent. However, Iran has greatly invested in its public health sector over the past 20 years; and with an average life expectancy of 72, it tops most countries in the region.
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So on top of the 8 people executed every hour 10 people die every die through unbearable economic and social pressures put on the Iranian people.
So thats 69888 executions (per year) + 3640 sucides (per year)
Grand total of deaths by the IR Terror Evil Regime= 73528
Does the evil NIAC report this?
Lets wait for Ahmadinejad to reduce enuemployment to zero and provide house with a front porch to every Iranian family so that sucide rates can hopefully drop.
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