🗣 Your account of life in the latest round of clashes—Thursday 15 Mordad:

🔹You’ve asked yourselves why, in 1397, the Parliament opposed the transfer of the Caspian Sea, and now, after eight years, it’s giving its approval. Who is the owner of this country now?

🔹The transfer of the Caspian Sea is such a sad piece of news. My heart aches, my tongue is tied—why are we so helpless, us Iranians? Why doesn’t anyone come to our aid?

🔹The situation with gasoline in Kerman province is very bad; they completely removed the free cards from the stations and reduced the quotas. I work on Snapp—how am I supposed to make ends meet with 120 liters of gasoline for my expenses?

🔹I’m writing from Fouladshahr. We enrolled our daughter in a public technical high school; they took 15 million toman. The Ministry of Education says they have no right to take money, but the schools have become so well-practiced that they’ve even set up card readers.

🔹I’m writing from Bushehr Port. Here they cut off electricity in the heat of fifty degrees. Our lives have turned into torture and slow death.

🔹I have a 15-year-old son. The Minister of Education has said public schools should not collect any costs for the school, but our school took 8 million toman just for registration.

🔹Internet speed has dropped a lot. I buy a 6-gigabyte monthly package, but it barely connects, and even low-volume downloads run out quickly. Now, only 3 days have passed since I bought the package, but my internet is already finished.

🔹In Mahshahr, insulin can’t be found at all—it’s extremely scarce. And if you do find it, you have to buy the foreign sample for about one million toman (3 days’ consumption), and it’s not covered by insurance.

🔹The exorbitant costs of buying Konkur (university entrance exam) books are really unbearable. You have to pay two million tomans for just one book. And that’s only for printing this year’s edition. It’s not clear what it will be like next year.