The head of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences reported a shortage of at least 700 nurses; low pay has driven nurses away from hospital work and even from completing their compulsory service.
On Sunday, 18 October, social security and steel retirees rallied in Tehran, Rasht, Kermanshah, Isfahan, Shush and Ahvaz to protest soaring prices, repression and death sentences.
The head of the Health Ministry's nutrition improvement office said daily dairy consumption in Iran is about one serving, less than half the recommended amount, amid 147 percent dairy inflation.
Pakistani officials have confirmed that trade has stopped at the Taftan and Gabd–Rimdan crossings with Iran, citing security; more than 2,000 containers are stuck at the border.
On Saturday, 17 October, Tehran's governor announced a drop of 7,000 pupils in the city's schools and named economic pressure on families among the causes.
On Saturday, 17 October, the Islamic Republic's foreign ministry called the halt in border exchanges with Pakistan "temporary"; exporters report banking problems caused by sanctions.
The triple-urgency "resistance economy" bill in the Islamic Republic's parliament, with inflation near 90 percent, calls for fixing the dollar, abolishing the currency market and cutting cash subsidies for most deciles.
The Monetary and Banking Research Institute of the Islamic Republic's central bank estimated Iran's economic growth in the three months to Mordad at minus 5.9 percent and named the naval blockade as the main cause of the slump.
Prince Reza Pahlavi's media office has released a video by Burgan Nezami, one of the authors of the Iran Prosperity Project, on the difference between Bitcoin and stablecoins.
Brent crude rose above $109 on Friday, 16 October, after new attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, and US crude reached $100 for the first time since early September.
Chicken and egg prices have multiplied with the rial's collapse and the end of the preferential exchange rate; a tray of eggs has risen from about 150,000 to 480,000 tomans and household consumption has fallen.
Satellite images show the Islamic Republic sent jet fuel to Myanmar and eight cargoes of liquefied gas to Asian waters despite the US naval blockade.
Three weeks after the sanctions on 27 Islamic Republic airlines, about 20 percent of foreign flights have stopped, and a trip from Tehran to Dubai takes up to 18 hours and costs more than $1,000.
Abdolnaser Hemmati, head of the Islamic Republic's central bank, called the collapse of Iran's economy an "illusion" in Bangkok; the IMF forecasts the economy will shrink by 7.6 percent.
The US State Department sanctioned Cuba's Banco Internacional de Comercio (BICSA) for providing financial services to the Islamic Republic's Karafarin Bank since at least 2022.
Lebanon's central bank has revoked the operating licence of Bank Saderat, one of the Islamic Republic's largest banks, in the country, a decision that follows US pressure on Tehran's financial network.
The World Bank forecasts that Iran's poverty rate will reach 38.4% this year, with 74.2% inflation, and that more than 2.6 million more people will be pushed below the poverty line.
The US Treasury sanctioned an Iraqi bank, two offshore banks, exchange houses and an oil trustee of the Islamic Republic, and warned of the abuse of khums funds.
Masoud Pezeshkian said that only 2 to 3 billion dollars of the 12 billion dollars' worth of petrol needed has been bought, and that with the money available, paying staff salaries takes precedence over importing petrol.
The main building of Tehran's Shariat Razavi Hospital, one of the Social Security hospitals, has been closed and medical services moved to a cramped space in its courtyard.
