🗣Your account of living conditions and the economic crisis—Tuesday, 31 Shahrivar:

🔹From Arak: Every year, the flu vaccine was distributed starting from the beginning of Shahrivar, but now when we go to any pharmacy, they say we don’t have it; it hasn’t been distributed yet.

🔹For only four items of skin health products, we paid 3.5 million toman. The moisturizer that two months ago was 350 thousand تومان is now 750 thousand toman.

🔹From Bander Gaz: Prices have become backbreaking. There are five of us working, but at the end of the month we still fall short. Because I don’t even have the money, I can’t change my car oil.

🔹I’m a mental health patient. My doctor told me that some imported medications are now being produced inside the country, and their effectiveness for patients may not be like before. On the other hand, the rising cost of medicine has also made it difficult to continue treatment. Who responds to our concerns, the patients?

🔹I’m a single mother; my only source of income is Snapp (online ride-hailing). I work 5 hours a day; barely it becomes around one million toman. All my income is spent that same day, and when the car breaks down, I only end up owing money.

🔹I got an agency for a large-scale transportation company. From the 18% commission I receive, I give 9% for the roads and highways (rahdari), 5% for supplemental insurance for drivers, and 4% to the large company itself. It’s like I became an employee of the roads and highways organization and the large company!

🔹In Siahsang Pardis, I have a furniture repair workshop. Yesterday I bought sponge at a price and quoted it to a customer. Today I went to buy the same thing and saw that each centimeter is 80 thousand toman more expensive. We keep losing money.

🔹My Pride car is 15 years old. Starting from the winter of 1403, very sporadically and not continuously, I began working on Snapp. Anything I managed to earn wasn’t enough to cover the car’s expenses, so I completely put it aside. In no way is it a reliable job. No matter how much you bring in, you have to make twice as much as your car expenses.

🔹Snapp is funny, but in the end it’s crying. If you work, you’re hungry; if you don’t work, you’re dead. Even if you become 100 thousand toman in debt to Snapp, they send you messages and threaten you that “you’ll be subject to the law and your accounts will be blocked.”