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As the United States intensifies its economic war, Iranian households are finding it harder to buy even basic necessities.

As the United States intensifies its economic war, Iranian households are finding it harder to buy even basic necessities.

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August 21st, 2026

As the United States intensifies its economic war, Iranian households are finding it harder to buy even basic necessities.

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Tehran's grocery stores have goods, but many households can barely buy basic necessities.

ํ…Œํ—ค๋ž€์˜ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ์ ์—๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์ •์ด ์ƒํ•„ํ’ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Unemployment has surged, and workers work longer hours to earn money worth only half of what it was a year ago.

์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์ด ๊ธ‰์ฆํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ง์žฅ์ธ๋“ค์€ 1๋…„ ์ „์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฐ–์— ์•ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์ผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Food and medicine have become hard to reach, with only government-subsidized gasoline as an exception.

์‹ํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์˜์•ฝํ’ˆ์€ ์†์ด ๋‹ฟ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์กŒ๊ณ , ์ •๋ถ€ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ ๋งŒ ์˜ˆ์™ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Ahmad Karimi, a 52-year-old taxi driver, said he works 15 hours a day and has given up fruit, protein, and leisure.

52์„ธ ํƒ์‹œ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ ์•„ํ๋งˆ๋“œ ์นด๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ 15์‹œ๊ฐ„์”ฉ ์ผํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณผ์ผ๊ณผ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ, ์—ฌ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํฌ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

As the war with the US and Israel enters its sixth month, sanctions and a naval blockade have hit Iran's economy hard.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ด์Šค๋ผ์—˜๊ณผ์˜ ์ „์Ÿ์ด 6๊ฐœ์›”์งธ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ์ œ์žฌ์™€ ํ•ด์ƒ ๋ด‰์‡„๋กœ ์ด๋ž€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋Š” ํฐ ํƒ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ž…์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Oil exports, its most valuable product, have become extremely difficult.

ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ถœํ’ˆ์ธ ์„์œ  ์ˆ˜์ถœ์ด ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Iran is disrupting ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz to apply retaliatory pressure.

์ด๋ž€์€ ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆˆ ํ•ดํ˜‘์—์„œ ์„ ๋ฐ• ์šดํ•ญ์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ณด๋ณต ์••๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Through this, it aims to push for sanctions relief and gain control to demand payment for passage through the strait.

์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ œ์žฌ ์™„ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด‰๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ดํ˜‘ ํ†ต๊ณผ ๋Œ€๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์š”๊ตฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ†ต์ œ๊ถŒ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ ค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Trump administration has warned of stronger sanctions to force Iran to yield, but experts say Trump may underestimate Iran's ability to hold out.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์ด๋ž€์„ ๊ตด๋ณต์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ œ์žฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ๊ณ ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ด๋ž€์˜ ๋ฒ„ํ‹ธ ํž˜์„ ๊ณผ์†Œํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Iran has bypassed sanctions for years. It has used more domestic production, informal trade networks, and a shadow fleet.

์ด๋ž€์€ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ œ์žฌ๋ฅผ ์šฐํšŒํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ํ™•๋Œ€์™€ ๋น„๊ณต์‹ ๋ฌด์—ญ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž ์„ ๋‹จ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Hadi Kahalzadeh of Brandeis University says Iran's ability to resist stops economic pain from turning into political pressure.

๋ธŒ๋žœ๋‹ค์ด์Šค ๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ํ•˜๋”” ์นดํ• ์ž๋ฐ๋Š” ์ด๋ž€์˜ ์ €ํ•ญ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๊ณ ํ†ต์ด ์ •์น˜์  ์••๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง‰๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts inflation will rise to nearly 70% by year-end. It also expects the economy to shrink by more than 5%.

๊ตญ์ œํ†ตํ™”๊ธฐ๊ธˆ(IMF)์€ ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ 70% ์˜ค๋ฅด๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ 5% ์ด์ƒ ์œ„์ถ•๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Tehran's Grand Bazaar is still crowded. People are looking for cheaper essentials instead of grocery stores where rice is up 60% and beef is up 150%.

ํ…Œํ—ค๋ž€์˜ ๋Œ€๋ฐ”์ž๋ฅด๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ถ๋น„๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์Œ€์ด 60%, ์‡ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ 150% ์˜ค๋ฅธ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ์  ๋Œ€์‹  ๋” ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ์ƒํ•„ํ’ˆ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

A 41-year-old woman said buying essentials has become her top priority. She feels exhausted every time she has to say no to her children.

ํ•œ 41์„ธ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์€ ์ƒํ•„ํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ๋งค๊ฐ€ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ๊ณผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์•„์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•  ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ •๋ง ์ง€์นœ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Gasoline is cheap thanks to subsidies, but supply is short, raising the chance of a price increase. In the past, such moves led to large protests.

ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ ๋Š” ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ €๋ ดํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‹œ์œ„๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Iran's leadership has labeled participation in anti-government protests as treason, but economic discontent continues.

์ด๋ž€ ์ง€๋„๋ถ€๋Š” ๋ฐ˜์ •๋ถ€ ์‹œ์œ„ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์—ญ์ฃ„๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์€ ๊ณ„์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Tehran economist Hassan Golmoradi said many Iranians blame the countries that led sanctions and attacks, and they show considerable patience.

ํ…Œํ—ค๋ž€ ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž ํ•˜์‚ฐ ๊ณจ๋ชจ๋ผ๋””๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋ž€์ธ์ด ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์„ ์ œ์žฌ์™€ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋“ค๋กœ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ธ๋‚ด์‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

President Trump promised to launch the harshest economic campaign against Iran, and the UAE announced it would stop all trade with Tehran.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์ด๋ž€์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€ํ˜นํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ž‘์ „์„ ํŽผ์น˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์•„๋ž์—๋ฏธ๋ฆฌํŠธ(UAE)๋Š” ํ…Œํ—ค๋ž€๊ณผ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฌด์—ญ์„ ์ค‘๋‹จํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Iran's elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said he prefers to end negotiations, but the supreme leader appointed a hardliner to lead the National Security Council.

์ด๋ž€์˜ ์„ ์ถœ๋œ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ๋งˆ์ˆ˜๋“œ ํŽ˜์ œ์‹œํ‚ค์•ˆ์€ ํ˜‘์ƒ ์ข…๊ฒฐ์„ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์ง€๋งŒ, ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ง€๋„์ž๋Š” ๊ฐ•๊ฒฝํŒŒ๋ฅผ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์•ˆ์ „๋ณด์žฅํšŒ์˜ ์˜์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ž„๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The official unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, but a labor ministry official said more than one million jobs had disappeared by the end of May.

๊ณต์‹ ์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์€ 9.1%์ง€๋งŒ, ๋…ธ๋™๋ถ€ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋Š” 5์›” ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ 100๋งŒ ๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Taxi driver Karimi said people cannot keep living like this and are just trying to breathe and get through each day.

ํƒ์‹œ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ ์นด๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ณ„์† ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ์ € ์ˆจ ์‰ฌ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ฒ„ํ‹ฐ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

August 21st, 2026

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