Billions of Budget for Islamization in Japan, Water Scarcity and Poverty for Iranians

The Islamic Republic spends thousands of billions to promote Islam in Japan, while the people of Iran live in water scarcity and poverty.

At a time when many Iranian families face inflation, poverty, and frequent power and water cuts, recent statements by Hashmatalah Falahatpishe, former head of the parliamentary foreign policy commission, demonstrate how the country’s massive budgets are squandered on fruitless paths.

Falahatpishe, explaining an experience from his trip to Japan, said: “I went to Japan, a certain organization that receives over a thousand billion in annual budget had the task of converting Japanese people to Islam, but over 6 years had converted one person. Later we found out he wasn’t even Japanese; he was a Burmese worker.”

He also referred to a contradictory situation and continued: “That same night, the embassy invited me. I learned that one of our prominent figures, a distinguished professor from the country’s industrial universities, had passed away. They said he had changed his religion and according to Japanese customs asked to be cremated. Our prominent figure went to Japan and changed his religion, while you took 6 years to convert one person in Japan. This money you’re receiving is unlawful. It was just 20 thousand dollars a month in rent alone that these gentlemen were taking. These are just shops.”

Falahatpishe then added critically: “Meanwhile, on this side you remain stuck with basic necessities of life. How much did these gentlemen help preserve the nation’s religion here? How much damage did they inflict on the nation’s religion?”

This account is merely the tip of the iceberg. The harsher reality is that the Islamic Republic government has for years spent enormous financial resources on supporting proxy forces and costly wars in the region instead of improving domestic conditions. Money that should have been spent on infrastructure, welfare, and national development reaches groups outside Iran, while people inside the country struggle to meet basic needs and even access clean drinking water.

This vicious cycle demonstrates that extravagant foreign expenditures have not only failed to resolve any of the nation’s problems, but have themselves been a factor in deepening Iran’s economic crises.