More than fifty cities were devastated and never rebuilt. The war cost 150 trillion dollars. At the same time, tens of thousands o f people were tortured and executed in Iran. Women and men are constantly being harassed by the Revolutionary Guards. The economic situation is catastrophic.
Oil revenues continue to decline, and inflation is rampant.
The foreign debt exceeds 50 billion dollars. Fifteen million are unemployed. Seventy percent of the population lives below the poverty line and earns but a dollar a day. According to the regime's own statistics, last year 140,000 children died of malnutrition. The figures on suicides are rap idly increasing, and corruption is widespread.