The popular protest against the cost of living and corruption in Iran escalated today (Monday) when hundreds went out to demonstrate in the capital Tehran waving signs and chanting slogans against the regime.
From the morning, the bus drivers in the Iranian capital, who have declared a strike, joined the protest, joining the young people protesting the cost of living.
Drivers are protesting against significant cuts in their wages and damage to their working conditions following the economic reforms promoted by the rule of President Raisi.
Earlier, Tehran authorities summoned dozens of journalists for warning calls following reports of protests.
It was further alleged that the authorities began to restrict access to the network in some of the districts where the protest broke out.
In the town of Shahar Kurd in Isfahan province, civilians attacked police stations and several bases of the Basij militia, the belief in suppressing protests in the Islamic Republic, and Revolutionary Guards forces were forced to evacuate the city.
Police and army forces responded by firing live ammunition at the protesters and at least one protester was killed.
Protests have been going on in Shah-Kurd since last week and so far the regime has refrained from using much force to suppress the demonstrations.
Unpopular reforms
A review published by Lt. Col. Miki Miki Segal, head of the Iranian branch of the Armed Forces' research division and a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public and State Affairs, reveals the depth of the economic crisis in Iran and the extreme steps the regime intends to take to cope with the sharp rise in prices The country.
According to the review, the Iranian government this month began implementing the subsidy reform and abolished the flour subsidy for the food industry that has been practiced for at least the last 200 years, a move that has led to a drastic rise in bread and other food products, especially spaghetti, oil, poultry eggs and dairy products.
The price of all types of bread increased in a few days 10 times and even 13 times more.
Pasta and edible oil products have become rare or even disappeared off the shelves of large and small stores across Iran.
The government, for its part, stressed that the plan was designed to prevent the smuggling of tons of flour to neighboring countries and to maintain food reserves in the country, in light of the continuing war in Ukraine that threatens food security around the world.
Segal adds that while leader Khamenei and the top Revolutionary Guards continue to adhere to a rigid position and in fact do not allow her to rejoin the US in the nuclear talks, and talks in Vienna between Tehran representatives and powers came to a dead end, the Raisi government began implementing new economic policies. By removing the burden of heavy subsidies over her neck and in addition abolishing the subsidy of many other basic medicines and basic necessities.
The Iranian media has covered the economic situation in Iran with the nuclear crisis and defined the state of the economy in the Islamic Republic as the worst for the Iranian people in the last three years since the Donald Trump administration withdrew from the nuclear deal.
The media in Tehran even stated that even in the eight years of the Iraq-Iran war, the economic situation was not as catastrophic as it is today.
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