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The rial has lost more than two-thirds of its value since the beginning of the year. ATTA KENARE / AFP
The fall of the rial has further accelerated in recent days with products that are running out of stores such as diapers for children and adults or drugs. In one year, the value of the dollar has quadrupled. One dollar reached the value of 150,000 rials against less than 40,000 rials a year ago.
With our correspondent in Tehran, Siavosh Ghazi
The vertiginous fall of the Iranian currency since the reinstatement of US sanctions in May has accelerated in the last days.
In stores, some products are starting to miss, says Mansoureh, an Iranian of 57 who runs a store in Tehran.
" Everything has become expensive, prices have doubled and more, " she says. The price of paper tissues, plastic bags, oil, meat ... And it takes money. Our incomes are very low, the products have become very expensive and life has become very difficult. "
The shortage of certain products poses real problems, explains Sahar, an Iranian woman in her forties, who can not find an adult diaper for her mother who is sick and in bed.
" I asked all my friends to see in the stores to warn me if they find adult diapers, but they say there is no, she says. There are people who speculate about products and hide products in warehouses and do not distribute them. Even if you find diapers, it costs three times more than before. "
Sahar is not an isolated case. In stores, some products are starting to run out. Iranians fear an even stronger deterioration of the economic situation with the new wave of US sanctions in November to stop all oil exports to force Tehran to negotiate a new nuclear agreement and abandon its ballistic program and its policy regional.