FROM one month, Iran lit – and it somehow happens behind the scenes.

The international press has extremely limited, if not zero, access. News of what’s really happening is leaking because the regime has blocked or restricted use social media.

On Thursday evening, a popular account on Instagram With name “From Iran”, a live broadcast is organized (a discussion that is developing at the moment and can be viewed by everyone). Four ladies participated, who are a little over 40. All four, without hiding their faces. But they all lived abroad, especially in the US.

A few years ago, the organizer lived in St. Tehran He was born there, went to school, studied there. Until the age of 32, she lived in a state of fear. Her role as a woman was specific, or rather defined. She had to hide her facial features from the age of 7 and take it for granted that she would never be as lucky as men.

• Shrinking economy: The easing of sanctions by the United States in 2018 after the abandonment of the nuclear deal hit the oil, banking and other sectors of Iran.
• Women out of work: The government’s drive to increase the birth rate and the emphasis on women’s role as homemakers – at the behest of the supreme leader – has led to a significant reduction in the number of women working.
• Price jump: The cost of goods and services has increased by 1135% over the past decade.
• Undervalued currency: The value of the Iranian currency, the rial, has fallen nearly 90% against the US dollar at open market rates over the past five years.
• Falling living standards: All of the above factors combined have led to a long-term decline in living standards.

A video from Nishabor that has reached the BBC shows protesters in an Iranian field in that city chanting “Death to a dictator” and engaging security forces. Another video shows them standing inside a building in the city of Neushabor and firing at protesters. pic.twitter.com/sBRI5UuO9C

— BBC NEWS فارسی (@bbcpersian) October 14, 2022