Seven months into Iran's war with the United States, everyday life is getting harder for ordinary Iranians even as the country's leadership projects confidence, according to reporting by Reuters. A US blockade has severed the state's financial lifeline — its oil exports — and many citizens now find basic necessities and housing beyond their means.
The pressure shows up across daily life. Reuters described an engineer who had to leave Tehran because of high rent, and a woman who stopped smoking because of the cost of cigarettes.
Carers, meanwhile, are finding it difficult to buy medicines, the news agency reported from London on Sept. 29.
