🗣Your account of living conditions and the economic crisis amid military tensions — Wednesday 21 Mordad:

🔹The state of Iran’s economy is bad and sick. The government gives the money for ration cards from the pockets of shopkeepers, so that for a month not even a cent reaches the pocket of the shopkeeper, and goods in factories get more expensive every day.

🔹The U.S. tightening and loosening is like irregular medication for a sick patient; not only does it not lead to improvement, it makes the disease more resistant and allows it to progress.

🔹Mordad is about to end. They still haven’t paid the arrears from Farvardin and Ordibehesht for retirees. During this period, the value of those arrears has decreased to less than half.

🔹I’m sending a message from Kermanshah. For my digestive illness, my doctor prescribed rifaximin antibiotic tablets. I went to every pharmacy—it wasn’t available. You can find it in the black market for two million tomans on a sheet.

🔹I’m sending a message from Mashhad. My son’s teeth have gone bad and rotted. Wherever I go, there’s nothing under 10 million tomans to fix his teeth. It hurts, he can’t eat. Neither insurance is responsive, nor anything else.

🔹I’m a cultural worker. With a salary of 20 million tomans, we really can’t do anything. Every time we go shopping, it’s less than 3 million tomans. With this salary, what can be done? Buying a house and a car and going on trips and a phone and even clothes… all of it has become a wish.

🔹For 90 days, we didn’t have access to the internet. For programmers, this is very dangerous. With this, anyone who is interested in technology clearly prefers to emigrate.

🔹I’m sending a message from the village of Abgarm in Fars. Here, there aren’t network signals for four hours a day, and power is cut off for two hours a day. All the ice cream in the shops melts. We’re forced to close the shop because the card readers aren’t working either.

🔹In Bandar Abbas, every day we have to wait in line for three hours for gasoline—at temperatures above 40 and with severe humidity. We’ve run out of patience.

🔹In Ramsar, water pressure is completely down. This very week, in part of Ramsar, water was cut off for 48 continuous hours, and no one was responsive. Electricity is also cut off for two hours every day.