The accelerating collapse of the rial is driving up the cost of imported goods, production, transportation, and basic services, while weakening the purchasing power...
A shrinking economy, collapsing household consumption, soaring living costs, and stagnant pensions are forcing Iranian families to choose between housing, food, healthcare, and their...
Accounts aired by Iran’s own regime media reveal how soaring prices, stagnant incomes, and restrictions on informal work are pushing more people into economic...
Iran’s regime has repeatedly altered key prices while claiming to protect low-income households. But these measures can trigger cascading increases across housing, food, transportation,...
Unofficial bread price hikes in Tehran are adding to the pressure on working families already struggling with soaring food costs, stagnant wages, and the...
With minimum monthly wages below 25 million tomans and inflation devastating household budgets, millions of Iranian workers are falling further below the poverty line.
The...
From meat and housing to childbirth and basic services, soaring prices are forcing Iranian families to abandon ordinary standards of living as wages fall...
Soaring inflation, unaffordable rents and rising healthcare and education costs are pushing millions of Iranians from poverty toward a daily struggle for survival.
Iran’s economic...
Denied basic citizenship rights, exploited in the harshest jobs, and threatened with arrest and deportation, undocumented Baloch workers face a daily struggle for survival...
Economic hardship and the lack of stable employment in Iran’s border regions are pushing children and young people into kolbari, exposing them to shootings,...
Surging Snapp and Tapsi fares, fuel shortages, and GPS disruptions are making daily commuting increasingly unaffordable as inflation erodes household incomes.
The cost of simply...
As inflation erodes retirement incomes and medical costs soar, Iran’s retirees face shrinking insurance coverage and mounting out-of-pocket expenses.
For millions of Iranian retirees, retirement...
Iran’s merchants, farmers, and families are being crushed by currency depreciation, power outages, rising costs, and collapsing purchasing power as the regime’s economic crisis...
