Niederlande · Persischsprachiges Exilmedium
Women’s growing presence in state-sponsored rallies has become a contested political and gendered field, exposing both social diversity and state mobilization strategies.
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.
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 war and its aftermath were enough to drive the cost of food in Iran to unprecedented levels.