🗣 Your account of living under the shadow of war — Thursday, 1 Mordad

🔹From Karaj: The Iranian nation has a large group of people who do not have even the minimum facilities of the modern world and the natural right to live—such as water, electricity, and internet—and they also have no right to protest. I hope that history will not forget our suffering in the years to come.

🔹From Dezful: I work in healthcare. For about a month, the air conditioner has been broken. No matter what we tell them—that in this heat you can’t work—they say, “This is how it is. You have to work.”

🔹I’m a heavy vehicle truck driver. Each month they fill 300 liters of diesel for me. I live in Tehran, and there is no free diesel here. With this amount of diesel, I can only manage more than two trips. Now I’m left wondering what to do.

🔹A suitor has come for my daughter; he says he won’t marry. Where can my father get the dowry for me? An “LG” refrigerator has become 500 million tomans. How can you marry with a 20 million toman salary?

🔹On Thursday, 1 Mordad, in Tehran’s District 18, Yafteabad, for 7 hours we have had no mobile signal.

🔹The National Bank hasn’t been fixed—if anything, it has gotten worse. After a few deposits, they put my balance at “negative two million five hundred thousand tomans.” This stage was also locked in the banking system.

🔹From Tabriz: The Ministry of Health has not yet paid the summer bonuses and wages for last year’s family physicians and emergency staff. They have also delayed the fixed pay for emergency doctors for a few months now. If they don’t pay by next month, we have decided to take collective strike action and not show up for shifts.

🔹From North Khorasan: A natural gas bill of a three-month period for a low-income family has come to 18 million and 500 thousand tomans. Every day they call and send messages that if you don’t pay, they will cut it off.

🔹From Kerman, Kahnuj: Free petrol is not distributed; the price of 20 liters of petrol has risen to 2 million tomans.

🔹They don’t accept Calabarg anywhere. They say the government hasn’t even given us the money from the previous “card” series. So where is all that money? Was it spent for paying for the burial of the remains of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s corpse? There is no money for the people, but they spend billions and billions on their own affairs. The day after tomorrow, to each and every one of you, we will get our due.