No, I haven't visited Iran it's true, but I have been to SOME gulf states(Qatar/UAE,K Kuwait and Bahrain) and their local people do live a very good life , which isn't surprising giving they have among the highest living standards in the entire muslim world, reason they attract so much foreign labourers from south Asia(India,Pakistan,Bengladesh) , Africa, and middle East etc
Dude you don't see people from Qatar, UAE/Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Oman, etc fleeing to the West to seek a better life, doing menial jobs or for asylum like you see people from Iran, Afghanistan,Pakistan, Bengladesh, Iraq, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Egypt, etc.
Iran is one of the country(peaceful one without war) with the Highest number of asylum seekers/immigrants in the West despite having no ongoing war, ask yourself why?
Iranians Top Asylum League as Only Citizens Fleeing Country Not Embroiled in Strife
Thursday, 10 April 2015, published by the UN Refugee Agency (UNCHR) on 21st March, reveals an increase in refugees applying for asylum in 44 industrialized countries, highest amongst them being the United States of America, Germany and Sweden. The report is especially revealing about trends among Iranian asylum seekers, finding that rather than turning to neighbouring countries for refuge, many Iranians are aiming straight for the West and the advanced nations of Asia.
It’s no surprise that Syrian refugees top the list in terms of sheer numbers, as the country’s civil war has forced between 1.5 to 2.5 million people to flee their homes. Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia, Iraq and Pakistan, all countries where conflict ruptures people’s daily lives and blunts economic and social opportunities, also head the list as “source countries”.
But what is startling in the UN report is how close the Islamic Republic of Iran comes in at the top, with Iranians accounting for four per cent of asylum seekers in the world. There are other countries, Egypt for example, that also face political strife and an ailing economy, but do not produce refugees in the volume that Iran is producing today. The question the report throws up is this: Why is a country not at war, without overwhelming internal conflict, so high up on the list?
Iranians seek asylum abroad for a variety of reasons, including religious practice, political affiliations and employment that, for one reason or another, leads to confrontation with the government or the country’s religious powers. Among professionals who have had to leave the country are journalists and artists. But increasingly, Iran’s economy continues to pose its own particular threats.
Within Iran, asylum remains a taboo subject. Despite the fact that in recent decades, at least five million Iranians have left the country, it is not widely discussed or reported on television or in print media. While the country’s brain drain does occasionally receive mention, the flight of the country’s ordinary citizens doesn’t seem to register as part of any national debate
With a combined total of 357,100 registered asylum claims in 2013, Germany, the United States of America, France, Sweden and Turkey took in more asylum seekers than other countries, accounting for nearly six out of ten asylum claims submitted in the 44 industrialized countries covered by the UN report. When planning a route out of the country, Iranians have traditionally sought refuge from industrialized countries in the West.
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