In response to the rising price of bread, the staple food of the Iranian people, rebellious youth across Iran set fire to the posters, billboards, and banners of regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his gang of criminals ruling the country. The rebellious youth, saluting the hardworking bakers and the army of the hungry, and emphasizing that the plundered bread and water of the enchained people must be turned into fire to bring down the regime, attacked the symbols of looting and suppression as follows:
- Setting fire to a banner of Khamenei in Ahvaz
- Explosion at an IRGC Basij base in Kuzaran, Kermanshah
- Setting fire to a government banner on the Khavaran highway bridge in Tehran
- Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base in Birjand
- Setting fire to the Vali-e Asr center of fundamentalism and crime in Lordegan
- Setting fire to a regime center for plundering public wealth in Mehrestan
- Setting fire to banners, signs, and symbols with the images of Ruhollah Khomeini, Khamenei, Ebrahim Raisi, and terror mastermind Qasem Soleimani in Mashhad, Urmia, Ahvaz, Kerman, Babol, Behshahr, Qaen, and Aligudarz
According to regime media, while the official price for Barbari bread in Tehran is 35,000 rials, it is actually being sold for up to 70,000 rials. In this situation, Mohammad Javad Karami, the head of the governmental “Flour and Bread Working Group,” announced that the price of traditional bread has increased in the provinces of Qom, Khorasan Razavi, Hamedan, and Gilan, and that price changes in other provinces, including Tehran, are underway and will be announced by July 15, 2025.
On July 13, the regime’s state-run radio and television news agency in Kerman quoted the deputy governor as saying: Based on numerous expert meetings, the price of bread (from both state-subsidized and independent bakeries that use government-supplied flour) has increased by 52 percent in the provincial capital and 42 percent in other cities of the province.
The clerical regime, after facing escalating protests from bakers, tried to prevent an uprising of the hungry by temporarily resolving some of the bakers’ problems and supplying minimal flour. It recently sought to implement its policy of increasing bread prices amid a turbulent political climate and intensified suppression. Mohammad Javad Karami, the head of the governmental “Flour and Bread Working Group,” said: “The increase in the price of bread had been planned before the recent 12-day war, but its implementation was postponed due to the circumstances. Now that the situation has stabilized, the Tehran governor’s office has decided to announce the new prices” (Didban Iran, July 12, 2025).
On Monday, July 14, the state-run Tabnak website published a report titled, “The order to increase the price of bread has been issued: what will happen to the workers?” The report stated: “In some provinces of the country, the price of bread has increased by more than 50 percent; this is while in the recent critical days, many workers have become unemployed or, at best, have lost some of their wage benefits and salary increases.”
The same source quoted a worker as saying: “Our wages have been reduced by several million tomans. As a formal worker with a monthly salary of 22 million tomans, I can no longer afford to eat rice more than once or twice a week; most of our meals are based on bread, and the increase in the price of bread makes our tables smaller. This is my situation; now imagine what a day laborer or a construction worker is going through.”
The answer, however, lies in uprising, outcry, and fiery blows to the institutions of looting and plunder and the organs that have made the people’s bread worthless. By setting fire to the images of the tyrant Khamenei, who is the main cause of this situation, and by attacking the criminal and suppressive organs of the executioner regime, the rebellious youth are lighting the guiding beacon for the uprising.