Posted on 10/23/2006 7:51:53 PM PDT by indcons
Tehran, 23 Oct. (AKI) - After two decade of policies by previous Iranian governments to contain the growth of the country's population, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on Iranians to have more children. After the initial demographic boom, when the population doubled following Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, Iran initiated a plan in 1988 to control the birth rate, based on a major campaign promoting the use of contraception. The country succeeded in reducing the growth rate of the population from 3.2 to 1.4 percent per year. Now however Ahmadinejad has said he would like to take u-turn in this policy.
"I don't agree with those who say that there is no need to have more than two children," said Ahmadinejad speaking to parliamentarians in Iran. He then went on to say that the government intends to reduce the number of hours women are required to work, in relation to the number of children they have.
"I am not saying that women shouldn't work but they presence outside of the home should not in any way compromise their principal mission which is to educate their children," said the Iranian president.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he is convinced that Iran "has the capacity to satisfy the needs of 120 million of its citizens."
"The West fears more than anything else, our population growth and we must defeat them in this battle," he said.
Next will come the call for a purge of the untermensch.
Yes, we are afraid there will be more Persian rug salesmen with which to contend in the future.
What they need is a democratic revolution, not a demographic revolution!
Anyway their tendency to martyr themselves through suicide bombings will help offset any increase in fertility.
Judging by how quickly Europeans are aborting themselves, Iranian might not have to have more children to win a demographic war.
Mamoud reads STeyn
Ha. The persians are in a population race with the turkish immigrants in europe. Double ha.
This guy sounds like Hitler.
This is exactly what i was thinking!!
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