Iran's Wartime Economy Forces Iranians to Cut Essentials, Defer Life Plans

📉 TEHRAN — Iran's population absorbs the war bill Khamenei won't acknowledge. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With $25B in lost oil revenue, Iranians are cutting food and deferring life plans. That cuts two ways: it could push Khamenei toward Doha's framework before November 3, or harden public rejection of any deal framed as capitulation. Washington reads this as leverage; the IRGC reads it as urgency to escalate before the economy concedes what diplomacy won't.