Exaggerated richness amid extreme poverty .. "Basti Hills" reveal the class inequality in Iran

Al Jazeera Net - Tehran

The aristocratic town of Basti Hills in the Loasan region, northeast of Iran's capital, Tehran, reveals blatant class inequalities in Iran and highlights the wide disparities among the society's groups. This has prompted media and social networking activists to raise questions about wealth and economic discrimination.

The images, which spread from inside the town when it opened its main doors for the first time in 16 years, provoked widespread public and public anger and reactions to the exorbitant luxury of a few at the expense of the people, who suffer from many problems because of the crisis in which the Iranian economy is floundering.

After the inauguration of the losing candidate in the presidential elections, Ibrahim Rasi issued a decision to open the main gate of the town after many complaints were filed by official and popular circles demanding the removal of the wall, which it called "racist."

Iranian activists say that despite the two decades of the town's creation and its separation from its surroundings, the residents' twittering and posting of images inside social networks may be the main cause of the occasional sensitivity, because they revealed a lack of observance of the laws in force in the republic Within them.

Iranian media described the region as an aristocratic town and said that one feels when he is seen standing in the presence of the ancient kings of Iran, and that its prestige may be applied to the palaces of the Shah of Iran. Some of them chose "Pharaonic" to describe the town.

The municipal council in the city of Louassan refused to encircle the town with a wall, stressing that the streets and alleys are part of the city. He said that a piece of land could not be separated and encircled as private property.

Economic discrimination
In the midst of growing criticism, the establishment of aristocratic towns in the Islamic Republic is a strange phenomenon that reveals class in society.

Iran's social networks and official media, following Alawi's remarks, commented on the city of the wealthy, calling it a symbol of economic discrimination, and called for a reduction in the phenomenon.

A new letter for the first time in Iran sympathizes with the aristocracy by saying that there are many towns similar to the Basties Hills in developed countries. The main paradox is that wealth collection methods are open to all, and there are no files related to evasion by taxpayers.

The town of Basti Hills returned to the Iranian media to raise the issue of class in the country, and many newspapers and news agencies blamed the regulatory institutions, such as the parliament, which says it does not perform its task of monitoring the executive institutions.

The voices calling for an end to the repetition of the aristocratic life and the prevention of the establishment of other towns such as Basti Hills were mentioned. The most disturbing thing for the Iranian street is that the owners of some of these villas are close relatives and officials.

Classic fracture
Observers in Iran believe that the pace of poverty has increased more than ever, in light of rampant unemployment, inflation and low purchasing power of the local currency, because of American corruption and sanctions, and these conditions have made the rich richer and poorer poorer, and pulled a large segment of society from the middle class to Below the poverty threshold.

According to Iranian analysts, Basti Hills is only one of the towns established in Iran, many of which are still undisclosed, stemming from the uncertainty surrounding the economy and financial fraud, and that funds that have emerged from Iran and fled abroad - especially Canada - have Equal to the amount spent in this town.

The town of Basti Hills was established in the Luasan area, with a view of the city of Luasane and Lake Lattian, home to many stars, celebrities, influential and other wealthy people, such as the Beverly Hills area of ​​Los Angeles, California.

The town, located close to the capital Tehran and surrounded by a seven-meter-high wall, has only 36 large and spacious houses, surrounded by large gardens.

Basti Hills was built in 2001 at the foot of the Albers mountain range, 200 meters above the surface of Lake Lattian, but soon became a place of recreation and a luxurious residence for the aristocracy of Iran.

Some of the villas in the Iranian Basti Hills are more than 2,500 square meters, and their prices have reached imaginary levels that could equal the total salary of the average worker in Iran for 222 centuries.