Economy

Before the bombs fell, millions in Iran were already being pushed below survival by sanctions, inflation, austerity, and collapsing wages....

Roya and Zahra’s stories show how poverty, war, inflation, internet shutdowns, and neglect turn disability into structural exclusion in Iran....

Rangriz explains how wartime layoffs and structural neglect push women out of work, deepening dependence, poverty, and domestic violence. The...

War, layered onto Iran’s existing economic crises, has produced an unprecedented surge in food prices and pushed household survival to...

War has not weakened Iran’s ruling apparatus; it has enriched the opaque clerical-military institutions that control oil, trade, confiscated wealth,...

War and prolonged internet blackouts wiped out jobs across Iran, from gig work to industry, with women in informal and...

Domestic reports speak of limited reopening and privileged access, while most Iranians remain cut off after more than six weeks....

This war’s deepest cost is borne by wage-earners: inflation, unemployment, destroyed industry, and the crushing of hopes for change. One...

Hormuz is testing not only energy markets, but the petrodollar order that bound U.S. power, Middle Eastern oil, and dollar...

Vahabi argues the Hormuz crisis exceeds past oil shocks and may bring inflation, stagnation, and social breakdown in Iran. Mehrdad...