“Life is really hard right now.”
Iranians walk in the upmarket Tehran district of Tajrish on February 9, 2020. – In a country weighed down by sanctions, shaken by protests and stressed by military tensions with the United States, many Tehranis struggle to hide their pessimism.
It is a part of the city where young women subtly thwart the Islamic republic’s conservative dress codes, opting for short coats, stylish make-up and scarves revealing ever more hair.“The quality of life isn’t good at all — we have pollution, angry people, high prices,” she said, pointing also to a “huge class gap” and Iran’s deepening “isolation”.
Iran retaliated by targeting US forces but then accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing all 176 people on board, in a tragedy that sparked anger at home and abroad. The strains of a violin filled the air as a busker tried to make himself heard above the noise of the heavy traffic.
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