Oversized Promises and Ever-Rising Prices

Why is there a shortage of medicine and why are the available medicines so expensive? Why is each egg priced at 40,000 rials? Why is the exchange rate of the US dollar above 360,000 rials? Why are home prices astronomical? And the whys continue. 
Don’t make a mistake; people are not looking for answers, as they already know them. People ask these questions to remind the government of the ground realities, especially officials who used to claim sanctions are inconsequential. People pose these questions to tell officials of what the removal of import subsidies has done to their lives. The faulty economic decision-making of the government has given rise to problems in the real economy and economic expectations. 
Morteza Afqeh, an economist and university professor, prefaced his article for the Persian-language daily Ta’adol with this note. A translation of the text follows: