TEHRAN - The government has made special plans to tackle poverty in healthcare, housing, education, and food.

These are the words of Iranian Minister of Cooperative, Labor, and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei on Sunday, according to Tasnim news agency.
Rabiei said that in the current year, projects will be launched with the aim of tackling poverty in education and housing.

He went on to find fault with past policies of welfare distribution as responsible for much existing poverty.

Even right now the government is in the middle of the subsidy reform plan which has neither created a job nor helped production, he said.

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