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Senior #Iranian cleric says Iranians are fat, should eat less meat amid meat crisis irannewswire.org/senior-iranian…
A senior #Iranian cleric and so called Shia marja said that Iranians were overweight and should eat less in comments that were seemingly made to overshadow the economic woes of ordinary Iranians. 
A Friday prayer leader in Hormozgan told that Iranians could only “dream” of eating red meat.
Videos on social media and reports on state-run media show kilometer long lines of people waiting to buy imported frozen meat with government subsidies.
Videos on social media and reports on state-run media show kilometer long lines of people waiting to buy imported frozen meat with government subsidies.
Many #Iranians have posted videos of the subsidized meat on social media complaining that its “bad meat” from “sick livestock”.
One fourth of Tehran’s restaurants had closed down because people could not afford their menus with reports on social media that restaurants had resorted to adding “stews without meat” to their menus to attract customers who could not afford meat.irannewswire.org/a-fourth-of-te…
It seems that the old cleric’s whole speech on “health” was orchestrated around normalizing the fact that due to government policies, billions spent on proxy wars and systematic government corruption, 80% of Iranians lived under the line of poverty.
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