More than 61 million Iranians are called to the polls on Friday March 1 to elect the Parliament and the Assembly of Experts. Iran is penultimate in the Middle East in terms of gross national product (GNP) per capita.
Today, one in three Iranians lives below the poverty line. A corrupt, incapable and bankrupt regime does not fall, says Djamchid Assadi, professor at Burgundy School of Business (BDS) in Dijon, France. It is a vicious circle and the situation will not change after these elections, says Assadi.