"Iran workers cross Gulf to beg during Ramadan"
This is the title appearing in very bold letters in the second page of "Gulf News". A major newspaper of Dubai.
Further you go and you read:
"Underpaid Iranians are crossing the (Persian)Gulf in ferries to beg in the UAE during Ramadan and Eid"
"It's my first time in in the UAE. I am a masonry worker in Iran, but I do not earn that much and I have nothing. In Iran my wage is 3000 tuman (Dirhams 13.50 = US$3.30) a day"
The article goes on to explain that these Iranian beggers, during their couple of weeks stay in Dubai, make ten times more than the price they pay for an illegal entry visa plus travel expenses which costs them about US$220.00
Take the time backward and imagine a little more than quareter a century ago. You could well find that if somebody was to go for begging to a neighbouring country, the path would be vice versa.
Is this the result of "Islamic dignity we were promised by our clergy saviours?
Whom should we blame?
یکی از تیتر های درشت صفحه دوم روزنامه گلف نیوزامروز دوبی: "ایرانیان ازخلیج (فارس) میگذرند تا درروزهای ماه رمضان وعید فطر درامارات متحده عربی گدایی کنند! آنها که دستمزد روزانه شان درایران 3000 تومان معادل سبزده ونیم درهم امارات میباشد، درمدت دو هفته اقامت دردوبی بیشتر ازده برابر دویست هزار تومانی راکه بابت بهای ویزا وسفر بالنج پرداخته اند ازراه گدایی بدست می آورند
اول گفتم: جای آن است که خون موج زند دردل لعل -
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بعد پیش خودم گفتم (مثل ملا نصرالدین که یاد جوونیاش افتاد) : اگه لعل ما هستیم که میاییم گدایی به درگه خزف پس یه جای دیگه کار شدیدآ خرابه؛ شدییییدآ
"چون نیک نگه کرد پرخویش درآن دید"