Source:
Tehran
Municipality
According to an opinion poll carried out among
Tehran citizens above 15 years, most of them have noted that there are fewer
beggars on the streets compared to past years.

Woman beggar with her child, Vali Assr Avenue, Tehran
Archive photo (by Fariba Amini, 2005)
According to SAMA, Reza Mostafavi, Tehran
Municipality's director general for social and cultural studies, announced that
the poll was carried out to measure the impact of Tehran Municipality's plan to
collect panhandlers and most citizens said that the number of beggars has
reduced and only 2 percent were opposed to this conclusion.
The
official said that 62-72 percent of citizens believed that begging is a result
of laziness of some people and others blamed inefficiency of social security
system, people's tender feelings, and joblessness as other causes.
Mostafavi said 92 percent of people have noted
that begging makes the city uglier while "disturbing the psychological security
of people, encouraging laziness, playing with people's sentiments, and lack of
trust in truly poor people" as other outcomes of begging.
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