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Category: Economy
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Below the Line of Survival: Sanctions as Warfare, Austerity as Policy
Before the bombs fell, millions in Iran were already being pushed below survival by sanctions, inflation, austerity, and collapsing wages. Before the U.S. and…
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Field Report: From War to Inflation, How Crises Erase People with Disabilities
Roya and Zahra’s stories show how poverty, war, inflation, internet shutdowns, and neglect turn disability into structural exclusion in Iran. The stories of Roya…
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Women First to Lose Jobs After the War: An Interview with Iranian Feminist and Sociologist Atefeh Rangriz
Rangriz explains how wartime layoffs and structural neglect push women out of work, deepening dependence, poverty, and domestic violence. The Iranian Labour News Agency…
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Spring 2026: Prices Before and After the War
War, layered onto Iran’s existing economic crises, has produced an unprecedented surge in food prices and pushed household survival to the brink. A 40-day…
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Who Profits from War in Iran? An Interview with Mehrdad Vahabi
War has not weakened Iran’s ruling apparatus; it has enriched the opaque clerical-military institutions that control oil, trade, confiscated wealth, and public resources. In…
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When War Destroys Workers’ Jobs and Leaves Them Unemployed
War and prolonged internet blackouts wiped out jobs across Iran, from gig work to industry, with women in informal and small-business employment hit hardest.…
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Two Pictures of Iran’s Internet: From “Gradual Reopening” at Home to a “47-Day Shutdown”
Domestic reports speak of limited reopening and privileged access, while most Iranians remain cut off after more than six weeks. Domestic media outlets such…
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The Hidden Side of War: Ruin and the Death of Hope
This war’s deepest cost is borne by wage-earners: inflation, unemployment, destroyed industry, and the crushing of hopes for change. One month has passed since…
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The Strait of Hormuz, Energy, and the Petrodollar Order
Hormuz is testing not only energy markets, but the petrodollar order that bound U.S. power, Middle Eastern oil, and dollar dominance together. The closure…
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Mehrdad Vahabi: The Current Middle East Crisis Is More Devastating Than All the Oil Shocks in History
Vahabi argues the Hormuz crisis exceeds past oil shocks and may bring inflation, stagnation, and social breakdown in Iran. Mehrdad Vahabi, professor of economics…
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Israel’s Attack on South Pars: Three Voices on Gas Infrastructure, Workers’ Lives, and War
Three experts reflect on the strike on Asaluyeh, warning of deepening hardship for workers, economic disruption, and a widening regional crisis. Following Israel’s attack…
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Under Bombs and Checkpoints: A Voice from Tehran on War, Survival, and a Struggle Made Harder
A woman in Tehran describes fear, displacement, checkpoints, collapsing livelihoods, and a war that has tightened repression instead of opening any path for resistance.…