Английская Википедия:Happiness in Iran

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use American EnglishШаблон:Use mdy dates According to World Happiness ranking study Iran is among the unhappinest countries in the world. The Iranian regime is a theocratic Shia totalitarian government. Iranian regime also apprehends people making dancing videos. Average amount of money spent by Iranians for leisure is 57000 toman (less than 1$) , while the average time is 4 hour, half of the average time spent by people in developed United States.

In 2024 minister of tourism criticized the government claiming that ever since the Islamic revolution happiness is gone from the country.

Cost of amenities has increased largely in the 15 year period until 2024.

A report by ISNA has blamed Islamic republic government policies of preventing happiness as one of the causes for people immigrating en mass out of Iran.

A poll by etemad has shown rise in mental health problems because of lower wages and incomes.

As of 2020 there were 12/5 million with mental health problems.

By 2023 because of poverty and inflation around 57% of the Iranians had malnutrition problem. Iran ranked 126 worldwide in wellfare.

According to Hatam Ghaderi by 2024 depression has become commonplace disease nationwide.

Social engineering

Iranian government has also tried cultral engineering through renaming Iranian festivals in 2023.

Timeline

In late November 2023 in the northern Iranian town of Rasht in Gilan province, a 70-year-old man at a fish market (Sadegh Bana Motejaded) was videoed dancing and singing to an Iranian folk song. On 1 December, he posted a version of the video on his Instagram page which went viral, generating 80 million views by mid-December. Iranians sang and danced to the song "on the streets, in shops, at sport stadiums, in classrooms, malls, restaurants, gyms, parties and everywhere else they congregate". According to at least one source—the New York Times—the phenomenon is noteworthy because music, dancing and singing are "deeply rooted" in the culture of Iran, dancing, especially by women or mixed genders, is forbidden in the Islamic Republic of Iran which has been in power since 1979.

Bana Motejaded told a local television reporter that he was dancing “to make people happy. I only want people to be happy and to change their mood,” but authorities cracked down. On December 7 local police in Rasht announced they had removed the video from several websites, arrested twelve men who had appeared in the video and shut down their Instagram pages. On Bana Motejaded's Instagram page, his profile was replaced by an emblem of the Islamic Republic's judiciary, and his posts were all replaced with one from the judiciary reading, “this page has been shut down for creating criminal content” and that the person who had engaged in the activity “has been dealt with.” According to a person "familiar with the details of the arrests" interviewed by the New York Times, the local intelligence division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp detained Bana Motejaded for several hours and accused him "of instigating against the government", the men in the video were also summoned, interrogated for hours, blindfolded, beaten, threatened with legal action and forced to sign a pledge never to sing and dance in public again.

News of the arrests and a backlash against them spread rapidly across Iran. Videos of people singing and dancing to the song were posted on social media and circulated on WhatsApp and other applications, in what came to be called the “happiness campaign.” The official Farsi page of the Asian Football Confederation (which has nearly 4 million followers) posted a video compilation of some Iranian soccer stars and teams dancing and cheering to the song.

In response the Gilan province police backed down, denied they had ever arrested Bana Motejaded, and restored the posts on his Instagram page. Local news channels interviewed him.

See also

• 2021–2022 Iranian protests