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If this report from Reuters is accurate, the mullahs of Tehran have every reason to worry. Not just because Iranians know that Israel will eventually respond to the missile attack, and not because they fear the Israelis. They are sick of the mullahs, and now worry that the IRGC has pulled them into a war that will make their lives even more miserable than usual:
„Economic pressure will mount, our safety will be jeopardized … We must avoid conflict at all cost. I don’t want a war. How can I protect my two children? Nowhere will be safe.“
Housewife Parvaneh fears an Israeli strike could be the final hammer blow to the economy, weakened by years of sanctions, mismanagement and corruption.
„We Iranians have endured more than enough for years. War brings only disaster. My husband is a factory worker. We do not have even enough money to buy staples let alone stockpiling them,“ said the 37-year-old mother-of-two in the central city of Yazd.
And this is what they say on the record, when the IRGC police state and mullahs are watching. Imagine what they say more privately.
Overall, the mood in Iran resembles that of the immediate post-revolution period or the start of the 1980 war with Iraq, Reuters reports further. That is reflected in a sudden thirst for hard foreign currency, a key indicator of a crisis in confidence in a government, in which the rial descended into microscopic depths. The official governmental exchange rate for the Iranian rial is 42,060 to one US dollar, but panic trading for hard currency pushed it to over 700,000 per dollar, CNBC reported on Sunday, a record low for worthlessness.
