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VOA Persian: Some 169,000 Iranian children lack access to primary education 


FILE - Boys study in a classroom at a school in Kerman, Iran, Oct. 23, 2016.
FILE - Boys study in a classroom at a school in Kerman, Iran, Oct. 23, 2016.

Nearly 169,000 Iranian children have been left out of primary education, according to Rezvan Hakimzadeh, deputy minister of primary education in Iran’s Ministry of Education.

The need of households for more income has caused many young students to enter the labor market.

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