Ahmadinejad calls for population growth

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy to encourage population growth, dismissing Iran’s decades of internationally acclaimed family planning as ungodly and a Western import.

The new government initiative will pay families for every new child and deposit money into the newborn’s bank account until they reach 18, effectively rolling back years of efforts to boost the economy by reducing the country’s once runaway population growth.