🗣Your account: Living conditions under political repression and military tensions — Sunday 25 Mordad

🔹No matter how hard young Iranians try, inflation and the collapse in the value of the national currency move along with it. No matter how much money you bring in, it’s still not enough. With what hope and motivation should a person in their mid-to-late twenties work, when they don’t see any future for themselves—and buying a home or even renting, in practice, becomes impossible?

🔹The late Khomeini who said we would provide water and electricity for free, now they can’t even cover paid water and electricity.

🔹That the national codes 7, 8, and 9 for Calabarg (food vouchers) charging will be postponed to the fifth day of next month is, in practice, equivalent to removing one month’s share from people. When the other codes are charged within the same month, between the 15th and 25th, why should this group wait a full month? This payment difference must be corrected in a transparent and fair way.

🔹A wrong has been done to those whose national ID codes are 7, 8, and 9. Why should our grocery/commodity basket be charged on the 5th of every month? That is, it won’t be charged in Mordad and effectively a whole month is lost, and it is charged in Shahrivar. The price of goods today is different from tomorrow. Why is Calabarg charged for everyone else between the 15th and 25th? What kind of justice is this?

🔹From Tehran: I got a weekly package of 4 GB; last night I received a message saying you used 80% of the package. After 10 minutes, and without even using the package, it was finished. They are officially stealing from people’s pockets.

🔹On Sunday, 25 Mordad, we received an SMS saying we have 24 hours to pay our electricity bill; otherwise they will cut it off. Where can we get 19 million tomans to pay an electricity bill, when we’ve been left with nothing but bread-and-night survival?

🔹They collected the fuel cards from the petrol stations in Kerman province. Because it’s the end of the month, most people’s allotted share on their own cards has already run out. Now I brought goods from Tehran toward Kerman, but there’s no fuel to get out of this province—and we’re stuck here.