For more awareness because this seems an amazing platform to share these facts, I will copy paste a comment of mine hoping it gives more context and info:

Well to be honest that wasn't a good representation. For instance, a 60 dollar boardgame if imported from amazon or some other website costs 20 million tomans or 200 rials which is almost 4 times an average salary.

Other examples, a video game if bought digitally costs almost a month's salary. Laptops and phones are expensive, Iphone 14 is sold at a price over 1700 dollars and it can't even support Iranian sim cards due the ban on luxury items. A mediocre second hand laptop with core i3 and some basic functions is sold as almost an average month's salary.

I could say meat in Iran is expensive and it could be the same in america, but a months salary in Iran is kinda lower or equal to a months rent in average parts of the big cities. Imagine that family of 3, would need to pay house bills, pay for food, school, laptop for the student (in the covid phones and laptop where a must and they were super expensive due to the Rial to Dollar exchange in imports), etc and they are left with nothing but loans and loans from banks.

The loans are an awful thing as well, imagine you have to pay almost 20% or even higher rate, more money to the bank for the loans they give. So basically the economy is in shambles and import goods are as high a months salary.

Well let's consider the imported goods in Iran, like phones, laptops, most basic ingredients for home furniture, and other goods.

An average family of 3, needs savings, laptop or at least a phone (due to covid and the aftermath of the revolution, many classes are still held online) for studying, paying bills, paying loan bills (because no one can support their family with the wages alone), and many more necessary expenses leaves many families in debt.

The poverty line in Iran is almost 4,5 times the average salary. And I do mean average not minimum wage.

Well to be honest that wasn't a good representation. For instance, a 60 dollar boardgame if imported from amazon or some other website costs 20 million tomans or 200 rials which is almost 4 times an average salary.

Other examples, a video game if bought digitally costs almost a month's salary. Laptops and phones are expensive, Iphone 14 is sold at a price over 1700 dollars and it can't even support Iranian sim cards due the ban on luxury items. A mediocre second hand laptop with core i3 and some basic functions is sold as almost an average month's salary.

I could say meat in Iran is expensive and it could be the same in america, but a months salary in Iran is kinda lower or equal to a months rent in average parts of the big cities. Imagine that family of 3, would need to pay house bills, pay for food, school, laptop for the student (in the covid phones and laptop where a must and they were super expensive due to the Rial to Dollar exchange in imports), etc and they are left with nothing but loans and loans from banks.

The loans are an awful thing as well, imagine you have to pay almost 20% or even higher rate, more money to the bank for the loans they give. So basically the economy is in shambles and import goods are as high a months salary.

Yet remember that the companies refuse to pay for cancer patients treatment because their medicine is too expensive and considered a luxury item. And this is due to the oppressing regime not accepting the import of those drugs from Europe or US.

Mass killing of Iranian children, no access to real medical treatments for many citizens, no access to contraceptives and abortion, being banned from studying many subjects in University because you're a girl and they are male-subjects, Forced Economy to keep people poor and destroy the worth of the currency while the oppressors spends millions of dollars buying real estate and university tuition in US, ...

I could really go on, but oppression is still oppression and shouldn't be hidden under Laws or Forced cultures. Iranians have their own culture not this one forced to them by the muslim kings and oppressors.

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