In Iran, the slow erosion of economic life has reached a new and more desperate threshold — not merely the loss of primary livelihoods, but the collapse of the secondary work that millions had quietly built as a buffer against hardship. War and sustained American sanctions have dismantled the formal economy layer by layer, and now the informal one is giving way too. What is unfolding is not simply unemployment, but the systematic removal of the human capacity to adapt — a condition that history has often recognized as a precursor to deeper social rupture.
Iran's Economic Crisis Deepens as War and Sanctions Eliminate Primary and Secondary Jobs
Many Iranians have lost primary and secondary employment, creating severe financial hardship and economic insecurity for workers and their families.