— Iran: Financial stranglehold and petrochemical fuel crisis trigger security alert over fears of livelihood protests
The regime's failure to supply standard diesel and gasoline has severely paralyzed transport and food delivery networks. The regime has injected acidic and contaminated petrochemical products into heavy vehicle fuel tanks. This has led to a covert strike and trucks being stranded at freight terminals in Isfahan and Bandar Abbas, worsening shortages and price spikes for summer produce and grains in Tehran. Riot police and plainclothes patrols have adopted a tight defensive posture around gas stations and main markets in the capital, as regime think tanks fear that absolute poverty, a 221,000-toman dollar, and the fuel crisis could spark an explosion of social anger and nationwide uprisings similar to November 2019.@TPOnow
