Critics of the Islamic regime fear that a war with Israel will worsen the serious economic situation. Inflation is pushing poor Iranians into misery and the middle classes into poverty.

350 Iranian activists in exile warned this Tuesday that an atmosphere of war in Iran could lead to “increasing repression of protest movements. ” Iran has massively deployed morality police on the streets to arrest unveiled women. Several journalists and three media outlets that have criticized the attack against Israel have been denounced by the Prosecutor's Office, according to Efe. The one that ended in March ended in Iran with inflation of 63.9%, according to the country's central bank. The increase in food prices was 145% according to information from the Iranian Statistics Center collected by Tejarat News, an Iranian news agency.. "Iranians know what war brings: Iran has already experienced eight years of conflict," says a university student who avoids giving his name for security reasons. "The people of Iran do not support an attack on any country." The trigger for the Iranian military retaliation was the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1. On April 7, authorities asked the public at a soccer match in the Azadi state of Tehran for a minute of silence. The response was a concert of trumpets, shouts, and howls. In the latest demonstrations against the regime, the Revolutionary Guard and the Basij militiamen were behind most of the more than 500 deaths due to the repression, according to the United Nations. The Islamic Republic of Iran had assimilated the once high voter turnout data, sometimes more than 70%, with broad popular support. One fact that shows the divorce between the institutions and part of the population is electoral participation; on March 1, this was only 41% of the electorate. The U.S., the United Kingdom, the G-7, and the European Union are considering applying new sanctions on Iran in response to its attack against Israel. The student who responded to EL PAS maintains that the “bloody repression, torture, and imprisonment of citizens in any protest” explains his unpopularity.