Caption: Selected social media posts, in Mordad 1405 (August 2026), have shown that rising prices and inflation in Iran—from bread and cooking oil to stationery supplies and food items—are putting daily life under pressure. In one of the videos, a father and son, using one of the war-era (40-day) devotional songs and repeating the phrase “strike, because you do it well,” go over the prices of several essential items. Economic pressures are making citizens’ lives increasingly difficult day by day; there is concern about the crackdown on any protest over living conditions. A woman who paid 500,000 tomans to buy a few items says: “If we protest against the price hikes, they make us into traitors to the country.”