GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Iran encourages population growth

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Associated Press via Jerusalem Post

28July2010 5:15amPDT

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: TEHERAN, Iran � Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy to encourage population growth, dismissing

Ahmadinejad hugs an Iranian child in 2009 file photoIran's decades of internationally acclaimed family planning as ungodly and a Western import.

The new government initiative will pay families for every new child and deposit money into the newborn's bank account until they reach 18, effectively rolling back years of efforts to boost the economy by reducing the country's once runaway population growth.

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