Billions in budgets for Islamization in Japan, water shortage and poverty for Iranians

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

In a situation where many Iranian families are facing inflation, poverty, and frequent power and water outages, recent remarks by Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, former head of the parliament's foreign policy committee, show how the country's large budgets are being wasted in fruitless ways.

Explaining an experience from his trip to Japan, Falahatpisheh said: "I went to Japan. A certain organization that receives more than a thousand billion in annual budget was tasked with converting Japanese people to Islam, but in six years, it had converted one person to Islam. Then we found out that he was not Japanese either, he was a Bhutanese worker."

He also pointed out a contradictory situation and continued: "That same night, the embassy invited me. I saw that one of the enduring figures, the enduring professors of the country's industrial universities had passed away. They said that he had changed his religion and told them to burn him in the Japanese way. Our enduring figure went to Japan and changed his religion. It took you 6 years to convert one person to Islam in Japan. This is forbidden money that you are taking. The 20,000 dollars a month was just the rent for the place that the gentlemen had taken, these are shops."

The farmer then added in a critical tone: "Then you stay on the basic things of life. How much did the gentlemen help preserve the religion of the nation here? How much did they harm the religion of the nation?"

This narrative is just the tip of the iceberg. The harsher reality is that for years, the Islamic Republic government has spent huge financial resources supporting proxy forces and costly wars in the region, instead of improving the domestic situation. Money that should have been spent on the country’s infrastructure, welfare, and development is going to groups outside Iran, while people inside the country are struggling to meet their basic needs and even access safe drinking water.

This vicious cycle shows that excessive foreign spending has not only not solved the nation's problems, but has also been a factor in deepening the livelihood crises in Iran.