He greeted this particular morning with the same amount of enthusiasm that he needed most mornings followed by a series of very important questions. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself “why” and sometimes he thought “what’s the point” and sometimes he didn’t quite know what to think so he just ate thistles.
do people even know the extent of sanctions on the iranian people? my mom’s family can’t afford fruit anymore. it’s a state of psychological warfare; literally nobody living there has any sort of hope for the future. added sanctions from the EU are going to destroy the lives of 87 million innocent people
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as my cousin put it: “there is no point to saving up out of uncertainty that it will be worth anything in a month. what investments can you make in the future when you can’t even be sure how much food will cost tomorrow? this isn’t living.” there are, of course, absolute shortages as well—my late grandmother experienced a period of deterioration because the medicine she needed was just not available. many such cases.
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