🗣Your account: Living under political repression and military tensions — Wednesday 11 Shahrivar

🔹I was a hotel receptionist. I’m 30 years old, and I fully speak two languages: English and Arabic, but the war shut everything down. Since they haven’t paid my wages for six months, I work for Snapp. I came to fuel at my last rationed slot, and I was in line for three hours. After that, I park the car and go sell at street stalls.

🔹I caught a cold the day before yesterday, and I had to go to a doctor, which cost 2,800,000 tomans. The visit was 388,000 tomans, the medicine was 1,280,000 tomans, and the injection was 1,180,000 tomans. You can’t live like this anymore.

🔹I’m a student entering Mehr 1404 at Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. On the registration day, they told us they won’t give us dorms, and that government dorms would be provided after one year. Now again, they’re not going to give us dorms, and we have to stay in self-funded dorms that are expensive and very crowded.

🔹I’m 14 and I go to basketball class. They said we have to buy clothes, and I don’t know what to do. I’m already ashamed to ask other people for money for the club and the club uniform. The situation is really bad—hoping for better days.

🔹Four eggs and a ton of fish cost 700,000 tomans. Last night I went to get sausages—4 of them were about 300,000 tomans. Do you expect people not to stand up? They just know how to sacrifice our kids.

🔹I’m a father of two children—one of them has autism, and I have to pay 20 million tomans every month, on minimum wage from the Ministry of Labor. What should I do with this inflation and these heavy costs? Damn the Islamic Republic.

🔹Dad, what kind of situation is this? I’m a 13-year-old girl who’s going into seventh grade this year. The cost of my books has become close to 2 million tomans. The cost of my school uniform is at least 2.5 million tomans. What are you doing with us?