Iran offers citizens $7 monthly payments as protests spiral over economic crisis: report

Iran’s government has said its citizens will beryllium fixed a monthly costs balanced to astir $7 to easiness economical pressures arsenic protests dispersed crossed nan country, according to reports.

The announcement was reported to person been made connected Monday by nan authorities spokesperson, Fatemeh Mohajerani, connected Iranian State TV.

She said nan measurement was aimed astatine "preserving households" purchasing power, controlling ostentation and ensuring nutrient security," per The New York Times.

The outlet besides said nan scheme represents a shift distant from long-standing import subsidies toward nonstop assistance for citizens.

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A protester faces Iranian information forces during clashes amid nationwide unrest, according to images released by nan Iranian guidance group National Council of Resistance of Iran. (NCRI )

Under nan proposal, astir $10 cardinal that had been spent each twelvemonth to subsidize definite imports, will now beryllium fixed straight to nan public.

Eligible Iranians will get 1 cardinal Iranian tomans, which is astir $7, and successful nan shape of in installments that tin beryllium utilized to bargain goods.

The labour curate said nan payments would beryllium handed retired to astir 80 cardinal people, which is nan mostly of Iran’s population.

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Protesters march successful downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025.  (Fars News Agency via AP)

Iran’s system has been deed by sanctions and declining lipid revenues which person led to protests.

The rate has mislaid much than half its worth against nan U.S. dollar.

The Statistical Center of Iran, a state-run assemblage nether Iran’s regime, reported successful December that nan mean yearly ostentation complaint besides reached 42.2%, according to reports.

The payments were announced amid widespread protests that included merchants, traders and assemblage students, according to nan Times. Marketplaces person been unopen down and rallies person been held connected campuses.

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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pictured sitting adjacent to a elder subject charismatic successful Iran. (Getty Images)

As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, according to nan U.S.-based Human Rights Activists successful Iran (HRAI), the strength of nan protests has reached astatine least 78 cities and 222 locations.

Protesters person been demanding nan extremity of nan authorities controlled by nan 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

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The group said nan authorities has killed astatine slightest 20 people, including 3 children, and arrested 990 people. Khamenei’s information forces person detained much than 40 children, HRAI noted.

Fox News Digital's Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.