The medical government's plan to decentralize Tehran and Alborz; Restoration of regional inequality?
By approving the decentralization plan from Tehran and Alborz, the Madisian government seeks to reduce the pressure on the urban infrastructure and move some of the economic activities to other regions of the country. Masoud Kamali, a sociologist, in an interview with Zamana Radio, evaluates this policy in the context of neoliberal economic approaches and warns that financial decentralization without industrial development and balanced production may reproduce regional inequality. He believes that the root of the oppression and crisis of Iran's metropolises lies in uneven development and believes that reducing inequality requires strengthening the welfare state, a fair redistribution of wealth and fundamental changes in economic policy.
Zamane Radio.