Videos circulating on social media show hundreds of Iranians fighting over food and goods, as well as breaking into and robbing some stores to get food, especially after the authorities suddenly raised prices for them.
The video also shows panicked shoppers storming stores and packing essentials in large plastic bags.
While the protests engulfed several cities in Iran’s remote and impoverished south, then expanded even further as they glorified the deaths of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Ibrahim Raisi.
“I’m sure the government doesn’t care about the citizens,” Mina Tehrani, a mother of three, told The Associated Press as she shopped in a store in Tehran, looking overwhelmed by the price of pasta, which has risen from 75,000 rials. last month to 165,000 rials per pound.
