SOCIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF CITIES: TEHRAN Finance – 121 Assem Bugybay
Tehran is the capital and largest city in Iran and one of the largest cities in Asia. Tehran is located in the north at the foot of Arbors mountain range, 90 km South of the coast of the Caspian Sea. The population of Tehran and its suburbs is more than 13 million people. Tehran by extremely diverse ethnic and religious composition. Basis of the population of the city are Persians, Azeri’s, and mazenderantsy. The main religion - Islam. Modern Iran political, economic, trade, financial and cultural center of the country. Here are the residence of the president, the parliament - the Majlis - and top government institutions in Iran.
The main sociological problems in Tehran Of the social problems of residents of Tehran worth noting: -Poverty -Drugs
Poverty According to government statistics, the Iranian capital city of more than a quarter of the population lived below the poverty line in the middle 1990 s. in northern Tehran are rich areas and are home to members of the upper and middle class, while the southern districts areas the poor are often neighborhoods - slums. Particularly poor districts are Chahar Dangesh and Eslamshahri. In these two areas, home to a total of 600 thousand people.
The reasons which led the country to poverty Ø military conflicts in the region (Iraq and the Afghanistan operation in particular), which led to a huge influx of refugees, which in turn ended up in poor neighborhoods of southern Tehran and the immigrants now make up the majority of the population of the southern districts - the slums; Ø Unemployment; Ø Low literacy rate;
Drugs One of the main problems of Iran is drugs. We know that in this country for centuries have used opium. But today is an acute problem, and other drugs. Besides Iran lie on a major drug trafficking routes from Pakistan and Afghanistan to the west. In 1999, according to statistics, in Tehran, there were about 240, 000 drug addicts, but the figure for obvious reasons, was probably more. At the 2002 s every day law enforcement agencies arrested 200 drug users and drug dealers. Those drugs were and are the cause of crime and increased mortality. Tehran is currently campaigning and open rehabilitation centers for drug addiction.
Iran emphasis on the fight against drug trafficking at regional and supra-regional levels In Turkey held a meeting against drug trafficking, and Iran has actively participated in the meeting. And at that meeting Turks could not fail to note that Iran's struggle with drugs demonstrates incessant efforts of Tehran in this direction. Head of anti-narcotics police headquarters Turkey Yeshil Muhammad Kaya at the opening ceremony of the forum in the Turkish city of Antalya said the redoubled efforts of Tehran and Ankara have actually done in the two countries unsafe for smugglers, and Iran is working hard to combat drugs.
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