🗣Your account: Living conditions under political repression and military tensions — Monday 26 Mordad

🔹I work at a private company and haven’t been paid my wages, because the administration doesn’t transfer funds to the company and it’s been held up until one signature is obtained. On the other hand, we hear about embezzlement schemes running into thousands of billions. The Islamic Republic spends all this money on its dirty policies or sends it to Yemen and Lebanon, where it’s spent on sham wars.

🔹I’m a Social Security retiree, and they still haven’t paid us the arrears for the first two months of the year. Summer is almost over, and I couldn’t send my child to class, a gym, or even a short trip.

🔹Before, I would buy 6 gigabytes of internet for one month, and by the start of the next month there was still about 1 gigabyte left. Now, for a few weeks, I buy 6 gigabytes, and although I use it the same amount as before, it doesn’t even last until the fourth day.

🔹What else are we supposed to do? Rent for the shop has become outrageous, and rent for a house has gone from 14 million tomans to 24 million. Where are we supposed to get the money to pay?

🔹Everything here is expensive. My salary has become equal to 10 days’ wages. I pay a 15 million toman installment each month, and only 5 million is left for food and groceries. All my teeth are ruined, and because I don’t have the money, I’ve lost half of my teeth.

🔹In Sanandaj, I work for a company; because of power outages on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, they shut down for those days. In practice, from Saturday to Tuesday, they make us work human labor until 1 or 2 in the morning, and then they cut overtime on the pretext that we’re off for the weekend. Here, labor is being used for free.