Ahmadinejad used the windfall in part to fund new free-spending social welfare programs. On his cross-Iran tours, he would personally distribute cash to newly married couples. This lavish spending accelerated Iran’s inflationary problems. Ahmadinejad’s nuclear bravado provoked international economic sanctions that cut into Iran’s already scanty foreign investment.
The collapsing economy has exacerbated Iran’s already horrific social problems. Iran is home to some two million narcotics users. Despite (or perhaps because of ) the regime’s repressive sexual attitudes, prostitution flourishes: An estimated 85,000 prostitutes work in Tehran alone. Last year the head of Iran’s anti-vice police force was arrested cavorting with six naked prostitutes in a Tehran brothel. It’s generally estimated that Iran is home to 80,000 cases of HIV/AIDS — three-quarters of these cases traceable to intravenous drug use.
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