Iran's Civilian Economy Fractures Under Seven Months of War Costs

📉 TEHRAN — The population absorbing the war bill isn't the one deciding whether it ends. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With the rial at 2.5M/dollar and sanctions tightening, civilian suffering is now a structural variable — not background noise. Hardliners price it as leverage; reformists fear it as instability. But neither faction lets street pain drive the nuclear calculus. The question is when economic collapse stops being manageable and starts being a command problem.