"Middle East": unemployment hit Iran .. and most of the victims were young people


"Unemployment rates began to increase since the Hassan Rowhani rule"
"2.23 million young Iranians have lost their jobs during the 8 years"
Iran continues to suffer from a severe crisis in unemployment for years, where exceeds the number of university graduates, there are nearly two million and 200 thousand this year, and who still can not find jobs, it is expected that this number will double by 2020, according to a report published in the agency News "Middle East".

The report also said that the rise in the official unemployment rate proves successive Iranian government deficit in the face of the unemployment crisis, in spite of government promises to address this phenomenon through the launch of projects for the unemployed, the report confirms that the unemployment rate started to increase since the Hassan Rowhani governance, where the year 2010 saw the highest rates of unemployment rate stood at 13.5%, at a time when economic growth in the same year of 6.5%, the highest growth rate between 2005 and 2014.

The report pointed out that the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare had said on August 8 that every 5 minutes getting Iran to the number of unemployed, explaining the need to provide 800 thousand jobs per year, also pointed out that his ministry covering secure 10 million low-income and slum dwellers, as I recommended to President Hassan Rowhani, Iran's Parliament Research Center not to launch and unrealistic promises.

According to official statistics cited by the report, the number of young workers fell to about 2.26 million at the end of 2013, compared to 4.49 in 2005, which shows that 2.23 million young Iranians have lost their jobs during the 8 years, the report touched on the unemployment rate among Iranian women, which amounted to 18 %, and 7.9% among men, while at the age of 15 and 24, the unemployment rate among young people is about 22.9%.