🗣 Your account of living conditions and the economic crisis — Monday, 9 Shahrivar:

🔹I’m sending this from Gorgan. In the beltway towns, in normal days we only have water for 8 hours. On Sunday, the water was completely cut off. We also don’t have the money to buy a water tanker for storage.

🔹Where in the world do people live under this level of pressure? From the stress of language tests and immigration and education, to the sorrow of bread and water and the weather and electricity and gasoline and gas… while right next to us they execute the youth of the homeland at every morning call to prayer.

🔹For 4 liters of gasoline, I went to 10 stations—they didn’t give it to me. They said that from tonight, station ration cards won’t be topped up; “don’t come here for nothing.”

🔹The people in the villages are not considered human by the Islamic Republic. Our electricity used to be cut only once a day, at a set time. Now it gets cut twice a day, and each time it also takes 2 hours, and whenever they want, they cut it. Is the area above Tehran near the homes of the commanders of the IRGC and the Parliament like this too?

🔹I’m sending this from Tabriz. The stupid and clueless executive vice president of Pezeshkian says, “How could it be possible to sell 70-thousand-toman gasoline for 1,500 toman?” We workers also say: then why do you pay a worker whose real wage should be 4,000 dollars only 100 dollars?

🔹With 10 years of teaching experience in Education and Training, my salary is 20 million tomans.

🔹How is it that we’re supposed to buy the 70-toman dollar of America above 2 million rials, but the government can’t sell its own 70-thousand-toman gasoline to ourselves for 1,500 toman?!”

🔹The veil enforcers have returned, and forceful confrontations in the cities have begun gradually.