A dignified life is a ‘distant dream’ for many Iranian families amid US war
With constant degredation and no real prospects of improvement in the foreseeable future, Iranians are losing hope.
Tehran, Iran – Iranians born in the 1980s have often considered themselves to be the “burned generation”, living in a period marked by the political and economic turbulence that followed Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.
The United States embassy hostage crisis, when Iranian activists in 1979 detained American diplomats and others for 444 days, set the tone for a decade ahead.
What followed in the 1980s was eight years of gruelling war with neighbouring Iraq, a cultural revolution undertaken by the nascent Islamic Republic, the executions of political prisoners, sanctions and economic uncertainty.
Iran’s national currency has also continued on a downward spiral, hitting a new all-time low of more than 1.37 million rials per US dollar in Tehran’s open market last week.