Thread by @HeshmatAlavi

THREAD

1)
Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
#Iran has a population of 84 million.

Two thirds live in poverty.
Over half are in absolute poverty.
20 million live in slums.

#EndPoverty

2)
Remember how Obama/Biden allowed #Iran access to $150 bn in credit & $1.8 bn in cash?

Much of that money fueled terrorism.

Not a dime was spent on the people; many are literally seen searching in trash for something to sell or even eat.

#EndPoverty

3)
#Iran has the world's 2nd largest natural gas & 4th largest crude oil reserves.

Obama/Biden provided this regime access to $150 billion in credit & $1.8 billion in unmarked cash.

And yet there is a shortage in cooking gas.

#EndPoverty

4)
Welcome to #Iran under the mullahs' regime, where

-two thirds of the 84 million population live in poverty
-over 20 million live in slums
-over 7 million child laborers can't go to school

And yet officials & regime insiders live lives of absolute luxury...

#EndPoverty

5)
60 million Iranians live in absolute poverty

Yet the regime funds:

Assad—$15 bn/yr
Hezbollah—$700 mill/yr
Houthis—at least $360 mill/yr
Hamas—$360 mill/yr
Iraqi militias—$150 mill/yr

Children looking in trash for anything to eat or drink

#EndPoverty

6)
#Iran's genocidal regime executed a young man for stealing.

The mullahs ruin the Iranian people's lives, force them into poverty, leave them no choice but resorting to robbery, and then execute them for petty crimes.

#EndPoverty

https://twitter.com/IranNW/status/1311232475813892096

7)
Imagine living in a country with the world's second largest natural gas & fourth largest crude oil reserves, and yet nearly 75% live in poverty.

Thousands of children in #Iran are collecting trash to sell & help their families make ends meet.

#EndPoverty

8)
Imagine living in a country where people are so poor you see many writing their telephone numbers & blood types offering to sell a kidney.

Welcome to #Iran under the mullahs' regime.

#EndPoverty

9)
If anyone ever says, “Iran is sanctioned by the U.S.,” ask them why does this regime provide billions to dictators and terrorists?

Assad—$15 billion/year
Hezbollah—$700 million/year
Houthis—at least $360 million/year
Hamas—$360 million/year
Iraqi militias—$150 million/year

10)
Some may say US sanctions deprive Iran of humanitarian goods & medicine.

Note: The chief of staff of Iran's president said one billion euros ($1.12 billion) in hard currency allocated for importing medicines & essential goods simply “disappeared.”
en.radiofarda.com/a/one-billion-…

11)
Those who make such claims are members of #Iran’s network of apologists/lobbyists.

Here are just a few examples.

12)
#Iran’s regime is corrupt to the bone.

Iranian MP Ezzatollah Yousefian Molla revealed the “disappearance” of $9 billion in hard currency amid the economic crisis facing Iran with the collapse of the riyal against the US currency.
english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle…

13)
#Iran has spent between $20 billion & $30 billion in Syria to prop up the Assad regime, a lawmaker told the semi-official Etemad newspaper, in a rare estimate by a regime insider.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

14)
Regime priorities:

Iran's Deputy Minister of Industry, Mines & Trade Hamid Zadboom called the reconstruction of countries such as Syria a "religious duty," adding that "Iranian building materials needed to renovate the war-torn country are underway."
en.radiofarda.com/a/iranian-depu…

15)
#Iran does have money, but not for the people

Obama/Biden provided the regime access to $150 bn in credit & $1.8 bn in cash?

The money fueled global terrorism

Not a dime was spent on the people; over 60 million live in poverty & many search in the trash...

#EndPoverty