Mahtab Qolizadeh, an economic journalist, said that disruptions at Iran’s land borders have made it clear that the prolonged stoppage of trucks is no longer only a matter of slower transport, and that part of the country’s logistics network is facing the accumulation of cargo, reduced fleet capacity, and increased costs of importing.

She added that about 8,000 trucks are stopped at the Bazargan border, and that drivers at the Riemdan border sometimes wait 20 to 25 days. According to Qolizadeh, the cost of transporting goods from Turkey’s ports to Iran has also increased in less than two months—from about 1,500 dollars to 8,000 dollars.