The most interesting thing that I learned from Karim‘s talk last week, which was also mentioned in Afshin Molavi’s The Soul of Iran , which I’m reading now, is the following:
As opposed to other developing nations whose per capita incomes have always been low but have steadily increased, the majority of Iranians have experienced a marked decrease in their standard of living since the 1979 revolution; average Iranians’ real per capita income is about a quarter of what it was during the Shah’s tenure in the 1970s.
Source: Bijan Khajehpour, “Iran’s Economy: Twenty Years after the Revolution.” Iran at the Crossroads, 2001.
