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

Iran’s authorities has said its citizens volition beryllium fixed a monthly outgo equivalent to astir $7 to easiness economical pressures arsenic protests dispersed crossed the country, according to reports.

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

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

The outlet besides said the program represents a displacement 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 the Iranian absorption radical National Council of Resistance of Iran. (NCRI )

Under the proposal, astir $10 cardinal that had been spent each twelvemonth to subsidize definite imports, volition present beryllium fixed straight to the public.

Eligible Iranians volition get 1 cardinal Iranian tomans, which is astir $7, and successful the signifier of recognition that tin beryllium utilized to bargain goods.

The labour curate said the payments would beryllium handed retired to astir 80 cardinal people, which is the bulk 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 currency has mislaid much than fractional its worth against the U.S. dollar.

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

The payments were announced amid wide protests that included merchants, traders and assemblage students, according to the 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 authoritative successful Iran. (Getty Images)

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

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

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The radical said the 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.