“We struggled for two or three months, my son didn't have a good phone. We haven't had an easy life. I have a disabled child. I live in a rental. My husband is ill. I have several children. Mohammad wanted a phone. Our phone stopped working, there was no sound, it couldn't take a picture. He didn't say anything. His teacher would ask him to send him an audio file, to send a picture. We told his teacher it wasn't working. His teacher told him to tell him about that problem to his father and not him. This is our story,” said Mohammad's mother Rokna for the MEK Iran’s news website.
MEK Iran informs that Mohammad is not the only example. According to the official Hamshahri daily, on September 14, Mani, a 14-year-old student in Kermanchah, could not buy a cell phone, because his family could not afford it. To earn money, he became a porter. He was chased by agents of the regime, and in this chase, he died, when he fell over a precipice in the mountains.
As stated by MEK Iran, these unfortunate cases come at a time when, despite initial declarations from the clerical regime to meet requirements for free online education, including providing free smartphones and internet to students, officials predict a 36% probability of dropping out of school students due to poverty and the inability to obtain cell phones or tablets, especially in rural areas. MEK Iran shared the statement of the Kerman province rector on September 1, 2020: “Over 240,000 students in Kerman province do not have smartphones”.
“The catastrophic situation of pupils who are children of workers, especially in disadvantaged regions of the country, results from the criminal and predatory policies of the ruling religious fascism in Iran. While the vast majority of Iranians do not have the means to obtain the necessary masks and the minimum conditions to protect themselves from the coronavirus, the clerical regime plunders the national wealth or squanders it in its programs and missiles or in its warmongering to abroad,” stated MEK Iran on their Youtube Channel.
