{"id":335353,"date":"2025-08-08T15:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=335353"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:50:15","slug":"irans-daily-reality-rotten-food-failed-infrastructure-and-a-nations-anguish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/irans-daily-reality-rotten-food-failed-infrastructure-and-a-nations-anguish\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Daily Reality: Rotten Food, Failed Infrastructure, and a Nation\u2019s Anguish"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_335356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335356\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-335356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ordinary-Iranians-document-the-collapse-of-basic-services-laying-bare-a-system-that-cannot-govern-and-refuses-to-leave.jpg\" alt=\"Ordinary Iranians document the collapse of basic services, laying bare a system that cannot govern and refuses to leave\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ordinary-Iranians-document-the-collapse-of-basic-services-laying-bare-a-system-that-cannot-govern-and-refuses-to-leave.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ordinary-Iranians-document-the-collapse-of-basic-services-laying-bare-a-system-that-cannot-govern-and-refuses-to-leave-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ordinary-Iranians-document-the-collapse-of-basic-services-laying-bare-a-system-that-cannot-govern-and-refuses-to-leave-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ordinary-Iranians-document-the-collapse-of-basic-services-laying-bare-a-system-that-cannot-govern-and-refuses-to-leave-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ordinary-Iranians-document-the-collapse-of-basic-services-laying-bare-a-system-that-cannot-govern-and-refuses-to-leave-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ordinary-Iranians-document-the-collapse-of-basic-services-laying-bare-a-system-that-cannot-govern-and-refuses-to-leave-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ordinary Iranians document the collapse of basic services, laying bare a system that cannot govern and refuses to leave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Two-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In cities and villages across Iran, heartbreaking scenes are unfolding daily\u2014captured not by professional journalists but by ordinary citizens armed with phone cameras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gallons of spoiled milk poured into open gutters.<br \/>\nBags of rotten chicken dumped into wells.<br \/>\nHundreds of kilos of poultry buried in the desert.<br \/>\nBoxes of putrid bread discarded in trash heaps.<br \/>\nStacks of rancid pastries thrown into public bins.<br \/>\nRotten fruit dumped in neighborhood waste containers.<br \/>\nWilted flowers tossed into roadside canals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are not isolated tragedies\u2014they are a daily documentary series, directed by the Iranian people themselves.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> Erupt Over Executions and Collapsing Services as Regime Vows More Bloodshed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7orhOkfk1w\">https:\/\/t.co\/7orhOkfk1w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1953795520977113361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why?<br \/>\nBecause there is no electricity.<br \/>\nBecause there is no water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Where is the electricity?<br \/>\nWhere is the water?<br \/>\nThe regime has its own priorities for the country\u2019s resources\u2014and the people are not among them.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Nation\u2019s Cry of Despair<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In countless videos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranntv.com\/955459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citizens can be seen shouting<\/a> in anger, weeping in frustration, cursing the rulers who have destroyed their livelihoods. Across markets, streets, and villages, one unifying refrain echoes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou do not know how to run this country\u2014leave!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe do not want you. We swear to God, we do not want you.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou have destroyed our lives. You have ruined our country. What more do you want from us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People have shouted it in protests.<br \/>\nThey have said it by boycotting sham elections.<br \/>\nThey have screamed it in every possible forum\u2014yet the rulers do not listen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> Continue Over Regime&#39;s Systemic Failure to Provide Water, Power, and Safety<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v1Hn1R3a2b\">https:\/\/t.co\/v1Hn1R3a2b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1948816799354741078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only a Corner of a Much Larger Crisis<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The destruction of food and the <a href=\"https:\/\/documents1.worldbank.org\/curated\/en\/099110623175541902\/pdf\/P1777150fa1dcd02108b55086af5f3268f5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collapse of essential services<\/a> are only one facet of the vast humanitarian disaster engulfing Iran. Added to this are:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Daily protests by looted workers, pensioners, and professionals<\/li>\n<li>Unbreathable air and environmental decay<\/li>\n<li>Skyrocketing prices, poverty, and crushing inflation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Regime Built on Crisis, Not Governance<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran\u2019s ruling establishment survives by manufacturing crises and exporting instability abroad. If deprived of foreign wars or regional meddling, the regime\u2019s structural failures become impossible to hide. Beneath the surface lies:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Systematic repression of freedoms and democracy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wncri.org\/2025\/05\/18\/iranian-women-confronting-institutionalized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institutionalized misogyny<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Religious indoctrination in education<\/li>\n<li>State sponsorship of terrorism abroad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is not governance\u2014it is occupation. The regime behaves as a foreign power exploiting a conquered land, looting its resources and destroying its social fabric.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">August 8\u2014Siri Island, southern Iran<br \/>Workers of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company resume protests, reiterating their demands for changes to the wage determination policies and other basic needs.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/taU98wAs1P\">pic.twitter.com\/taU98wAs1P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1953777530973942005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Verdict from the Streets<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most damning report on Iran\u2019s condition does not come from foreign analysts\u2014it comes from the lived experience of its people. Every spoiled meal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/irans-electricity-crisis-regime-admits-decades-of-neglect-exposing-fear-of-public-fury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every blackout<\/a>, every parched tap is testimony to a system unfit to rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranians, with unwavering clarity, continue to shout their judgment at the clerical establishment\u2019s think tanks and leaders:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou do not know how to run this country\u2014leave!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe do not want you. We swear to God, we do not want you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until these occupiers are removed, the cycle of waste, destruction, and despair will continue\u2014documented each day by the very people forced to endure it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read In cities and villages across Iran, heartbreaking scenes are unfolding daily&mdash;captured not by professional journalists but by ordinary citizens armed with phone cameras. 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