1-THREAD: Do you know why Iranians are demonstrating against the regime? Do you wonder why they no longer believe the promises of president Rouhani?Part of the answer is in these pictures. This is how children of authorities in Iran live while ordinary Iranians are getting poorer 
2-Recently a controversy arose when Amir Mohsen Moradian, the son of Tehran's ambassador to Denmark, got married in one of Tehran’s most luxurious wedding halls. It was an extremely sumptuous wedding. The wedding was also attended by government officials. rferl.org/a/in-the-haute…
3-The elite’s corruption and their taste for conspicuous consumption have been sending shockwaves across the social media for quite a long time. Such taste for luxury transcends the reformist/conservative divide. One reason why Iranians are indignant with the entire establishment
4- Recently, Hamid Reza Aref, son of a prominent reformist politician, who is known to have become a successful businessman through cronyism, attributed his success to the so-called “good genes” unleashing a flurry of criticism online. dw.com/en/iranian-eli…
5-These conspicuous consumption habits occur in the context of Iran’s recent bleak economic trends: currency has lost more than 60% of its value since January, there’re demonstrations in the country as many workers have not been paid, and the inflation is sky-rocketing.
6-What’s mind-boggling is the seemingly “unislamic” lifestyle led by these rich kids of Tehran while ordinary people get punished for alcohol, hijab, or parties. Yet, often, these kids of the officials pose for religious events in a bid to give the impression that they’re pious.
