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Category: Economy
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Soaring Prices, Stagnant Wages: Food Inflation Tops 100%
The estimated cost of a basic household basket has more than doubled in months, while food prices have risen far faster than wages. The…
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Domestic Violence and the Suffering We Do Not See
Economic crisis and war intensify domestic violence in Iran, while homeless women, women who use drugs and sex workers remain among those whose suffering…
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Gasoline: Where Iran’s Social Crises Converge
Seven years after the bloody November 2019 protests, gasoline is once again at the centre of a potentially explosive social crisis, as war, inflation…
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The Gasoline Dilemma: A Decision Harder Than a Deal with the United States
As war, sanctions, and a maritime blockade deepen Iran’s fuel crisis, the government faces a politically explosive choice: reduce subsidies, raise prices, or risk…
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How War Pushes Women Out of Iran’s Labour Market: A Field Report
War and economic crisis eliminate women’s jobs first, deepening poverty, financial dependence, and exposure to domestic violence. War has a male face, partly because…
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Before Sunrise, After the Fields: Women’s Seasonal Labor in Kurdistan in Iran
Women seasonal agricultural workers in Kurdistan in Iran are paid less than men, then return home to a second shift of unpaid domestic labor.…
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A Diary from Iran: Fear, Waiting, and Uncertainty on the 23rd Day of War
A diary from war-struck Tehran, where bombs, checkpoints, grief, and ordinary acts of care fold into the struggle to keep living. This is an…
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A Field Report from Iran: The Housing Crisis After the War
The war has deepened Iran’s housing emergency: soaring rents, stalled construction, failed state schemes, and millions pushed into residential insecurity. In the fragile ceasefire…
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Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab, and the New Age of Cheap Maritime War
Low-cost drones and missiles are eroding the U.S.-led maritime order, allowing smaller actors to threaten chokepoints and global trade. The roughly 16-hour exchange of…
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Bab al-Mandab: How a Red Sea Chokepoint Can Shake Oil and Food Markets
A maritime blockade in the Red Sea threatens oil flows, shipping routes, fertiliser supplies, and global food security. How can disruption in a strait…
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A Field Report from Iran: Nurses Who Carry Life in the Heart of Death
Hospitals become sites of care, exhaustion, repression, and resistance as nurses work through uprising, war, and economic collapse. “We were still in shock from…
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The Hidden Face of the Strait of Hormuz: Dolphins and Turtles in the Persian Gulf Today
Recent military tensions and oil pollution are endangering the Persian Gulf’s fragile ecosystem, poisoning coastal dolphins’ lungs and making hawksbill turtles’ nesting beaches unsafe.…