🗣 Your account of living conditions and the economic crisis — Monday, 30 Shahrivar:

🔹 With the reopening of schools, I wanted to remind people that I’m a teacher who earns 20 tomans in salary. But my commute alone costs 500,000 tomans a day. Prices for everything have gone up several times. This money only covers a few days.

🔹 I’m a 14-year-old student. Every year they make the school uniform bigger and looser. Our coats are up to 10 centimeters below the knee, our pants become layered, so much that they say, “Shorten them,” and that they will deduct points from your final grade.

🔹 The first Welfare Organization where I registered a disability case in 1377 (1998/99) was in Shiraz. To reach its building, you had to climb up the mountain for hours. The route was difficult even for someone who wasn’t sick—what more for a disabled person who uses a wheelchair.

🔹 From Tehran: Today I went to bury my brother. We bought my mother’s grave in two levels for 7 million in 84 (2005/06). Now they say you have to pay 25 million tomans just to reopen it. This amount is in addition to costs such as washing and…

🔹 From Gilan: Bananas have become 600,000 tomans per kilo. Honestly, who can afford to buy them anymore?

🔹 The most useless phone on the market has become 40 million tomans.

🔹 In the city center store of Kashan, on a digital signboard, they put “instant” prices for chicken, meat, and fish. Where in the world is it like this?

🔹 We are a group of workers from the outskirts who work for Yassuj University of Medical Sciences. They haven’t paid us for three months, and every time we follow up, we’re threatened with dismissal.