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August 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The budget for the population control programme has been fully eliminated and such a project no longer exists in the health ministry,” she said. “The policy of population control does not exist as it did previously.”
Her announcement came after Ayatollah Khamenei, in a nationally televised speech, invoked the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the revolution, to declare current birth control practices no longer appropriate.
“The policy of population restriction should definitely be revised and the authorities should build the culture in order to abandon the current status of one child, two children [per family],” he said.
“The figure of 150 or 200 million was once stated by the Imam [Khomeini] and that is the correct figure that we should reach.”
While around half of Iranians are under 35, officials fear the low growth rate – currently 1.2 per cent compared with 3.2 per cent in 1986 – would eventually lead to an ageing and eventually decreasing population.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has previously called on Iranians to have more children, saying it would help Iran to defeat the West. Three years ago, he introduced a scheme that deposited £600 in a bank account for every new born baby, topped up with £60 every year until they reached 18.
However, experts have warned the population drive will founder on the reluctance of couples to marry and have children in an economy blighted by unemployment, inflation and the effects of Western sanctions aimed at combating Iran’s nuclear programme.
Ali Reza Marandi, a former health minister and current member of the parliamentary health committee, told Arman newspaper that abolishing the birth control programme “would not add a single baby” to the population.
He added: “Our problem is that our young people either don’t marry or marry late and in Iran, as long as there is no marriage, there are no babies. And those people who marry late suffice to only one child.”
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