Since July 2023, people’s tables in the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchistan have become increasingly empty. Now, people can no longer afford basic staples like flour. Bread shortages and hours-long queues outside bakeries have become the norm in the region. This new normal has come at the cost of social unrest that killed one person at the beginning of this month.
On July 5, after waiting in line for hours in front of a bakery in Sistan and Baluchistan, two men got into a fight over their place in the queue. The argument turned violent and one of the men was killed. News of the incident angered Iranians on social media and attracted nationwide attention to the severe flour and bread shortages in Sistan and Baluchistan.
