Iran: 1 million engineers outside of work cycle in mullahs’ regime

Skyrocketing unemployment in Iran

Saturday, February 27^th: The Statistics Center in Iran admitted more than 1 million graduated engineers in Iran are not present in the country’s active engineering population. 233,000 people are unemployed amongst the active engineering population.

The reason behind such conditions is the fact that the Revolutionary Guards has monopolized all construction projects, said Bahram Ghaffari, an advisor at Iran’s Engineering Organization.

“All national and construction projects are allocated to a specific branch of society and our country’ engineers have been left out. A decrease in domestic construction projects and no solutions to export services abroad have left a large portion of the society’s active workforce, being the engineers, out of work,” he added.

“Many government companies are winning project contracts outside of Iran, and due to non-technical and political issues, despite the losses they will suffer, they are continuing their projects in those particular countries,” Ghaffari explained, in reference to the contracts signed by the Revolutionary Guards.