🗣Your account of the economic crisis amid military tensions — Tuesday, 20 Mordad:

🔹I’m sending a message from Noushahr. I’m a simple worker who works at a gas pump. I earn 20 million tomans a month in salary; I pay 15 million tomans for rent.

🔹We work in the Aqqala industrial town. Some companies have taken full advantage of the wartime conditions—everything from cutting meal promises to cutting meal vouchers and other worker benefits, which were already enough to leave workers miserable.

🔹I’m sending a message from Mehrshahr in Karaj. They’ve weakened Mobile First’s internet in such a way that sometimes it feels like it’s completely cut off, so that Google won’t even load.

🔹A 800-gram mayonnaise bottle has become one million one hundred fifty thousand tomans. If a family wants to eat olivieh salad, with the chicken and eggs and bread and everything… they have to spend three million tomans.

🔹I’m sending a message from Tikmeh Das in East Azerbaijan. A Samsung A07 phone has become 29 million and 870 thousand tomans. At the end of Khordad, I had priced this same phone at 25 million tomans.

🔹I’m sending a message from Karaj. Previously, the electricity would go off every other day; now they’ve made it every day. I have a car wash, and I have to answer customers. Every day, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., there’s electricity.

🔹Nurses at the University of Medical Sciences in Zanjan are under pressure—both for forced overtime and for non-payment of tariffs.

🔹Regular engine oil for a car has gone up in one month from 350 thousand tomans per liter to 800 thousand tomans.

🔹I’m sending a message from Kerman. The city’s security situation has become very dangerous; every day, theft happens from people’s homes. Even if they manage to catch the thief, the judiciary releases the criminals quickly because of the wartime circular, and they go back to stealing. The police also can’t do anything.