Mounting Debts and Reduced Medical Coverage Drive Iranian Pensioners to the Brink

Mounting Debts and Reduced Medical Coverage Drive Iranian Pensioners to the Brink

A senior pensioners’ representative warns that escalating government debts, shrinking medical support, and relentless inflation have turned retirees into a “smoldering fire beneath the ashes.” The livelihood crisis facing Iran’s pensioners has intensified as economic pressures and anti-public policies under the thirteenth and fourteenth administrations continue to erode living standards. In a rare public warning, a senior official from the regi…