🗣 Your account of living conditions and the economic crisis — Wednesday, 18 Shahrivar:

🔹I have blood cancer and I have to undergo a bone marrow transplant. The cost has become between 25 and 30 million. I really don’t have it. I’m stuck—what should I do? I just have to sit and wait to die.

🔹I’m sending this from Tehran. There’s no medicine here anymore. You have to search for days to find the medicine you want. For example, digestive pills—which are a simple supplement for digestion—can’t be found either.

🔹I’m sending this from Tehran. My father has diabetes and uses metformin. It’s not available now, so we can’t go get it. I had to ask one of my friends to send it to me from Turkey.

🔹I’m sending this from Sistan and Baluchestan. For 10 months now, the vital medication factor 13 for hemophilia patients hasn’t been available in the country, and pharmacy inventories have reached zero.

🔹My car has been broken for three days. I left it on the side of the street. Repair costs and the prices of parts are exorbitant.

🔹I’m sending this from Mashhad. The electricity bill used to come every time at 50,000 tomans, but this time it came to 600,000 tomans. We’re exhausted from this daily inflation of everything.

🔹I’m a nurse and I rent in Aryashahr. For the last billing period, my rent was 350,000 tomans, but now it’s come to more than five million.

🔹We pay all prices in dollars. Even gasoline, they calculate it in dollars. Prices are increasing day by day, and yet I’m left wondering why our income is still in rials and there’s been no pay raise at all.

🔹I bought a few pieces of fruit and it came to 610,000 tomans.