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In cities and villages across Iran, heartbreaking scenes are unfolding daily—captured not by professional journalists but by ordinary citizens armed with phone cameras.
Gallons of spoiled milk poured into open gutters.
Bags of rotten chicken dumped into wells.
Hundreds of kilos of poultry buried in the desert.
Boxes of putrid bread discarded in trash heaps.
Stacks of rancid pastries thrown into public bins.
Rotten fruit dumped in neighborhood waste containers.
Wilted flowers tossed into roadside canals.
Even newborn babies are placed for brief moments into powerless refrigerators, desperate parents hoping to salvage a trace of cool air in the summer heat.
These are not isolated tragedies—they are a daily documentary series, directed by the Iranian people themselves.
#IranProtests Erupt Over Executions and Collapsing Services as Regime Vows More Bloodshed https://t.co/7orhOkfk1w
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 8, 2025
Why?
Because there is no electricity.
Because there is no water.
Where is the electricity?
Where is the water?
The regime has its own priorities for the country’s resources—and the people are not among them.
A Nation’s Cry of Despair
In countless videos, citizens can be seen shouting in anger, weeping in frustration, cursing the rulers who have destroyed their livelihoods. Across markets, streets, and villages, one unifying refrain echoes:
“You do not know how to run this country—leave!”
“We do not want you. We swear to God, we do not want you.”
“You have destroyed our lives. You have ruined our country. What more do you want from us?”
People have shouted it in protests.
They have said it by boycotting sham elections.
They have screamed it in every possible forum—yet the rulers do not listen.
#IranProtests Continue Over Regime's Systemic Failure to Provide Water, Power, and Safetyhttps://t.co/v1Hn1R3a2b
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) July 25, 2025
Only a Corner of a Much Larger Crisis
The destruction of food and the collapse of essential services are only one facet of the vast humanitarian disaster engulfing Iran. Added to this are:
- Daily protests by looted workers, pensioners, and professionals
- Unbreathable air and environmental decay
- Skyrocketing prices, poverty, and crushing inflation
All of it is the product of a corrupt and predatory system that has mismanaged an entire nation for 46 years under the rule of the absolute clerical authority.
A Regime Built on Crisis, Not Governance
Iran’s ruling establishment survives by manufacturing crises and exporting instability abroad. If deprived of foreign wars or regional meddling, the regime’s structural failures become impossible to hide. Beneath the surface lies:
- Systematic repression of freedoms and democracy
- Institutionalized misogyny
- Religious indoctrination in education
- State sponsorship of terrorism abroad
This is not governance—it is occupation. The regime behaves as a foreign power exploiting a conquered land, looting its resources and destroying its social fabric.
August 8—Siri Island, southern Iran
Workers of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company resume protests, reiterating their demands for changes to the wage determination policies and other basic needs.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/taU98wAs1P— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 8, 2025
The Verdict from the Streets
The most damning report on Iran’s condition does not come from foreign analysts—it comes from the lived experience of its people. Every spoiled meal, every blackout, every parched tap is testimony to a system unfit to rule.
Iranians, with unwavering clarity, continue to shout their judgment at the clerical establishment’s think tanks and leaders:
“You do not know how to run this country—leave!”
“We do not want you. We swear to God, we do not want you.”
Until these occupiers are removed, the cycle of waste, destruction, and despair will continue—documented each day by the very people forced to endure it.