How Iran Got Itself In A Population Implosion Mess Iran is not one of the countries that we in the west think of as having a population problem, but the Imams in Iran who are trying to build an army think they have one. Women are not having enough children to supply them with the soldiers needed for a 20 million man army, and policy fluctuations on population control measures in the past have confused matters to the point that what used to be encouraged is illegal, and what used to be illegal is now encouraged. Watch: And here we thought China was the country with the schizophrenic population control measures. A government dating site, though, is just a bit creepy. 