Brand new buildings, a commercial centre and luxury cars, Terrance North is a shop window

for foreign business. Global brands have based themselves here to sell to Iranians. This

gallery and its luxurious garden is one of the biggest in the capital. Every artist would

like to have a free environment and they want to have an open space to be able to continue

their artistic work. As you know, you can't put art in a box saying that we haven't moved

forwards on this would mean the end of our work. All those who work and art clearly want their

situation to improve. 25 kilometers along the road lies the Shush neighborhood. Here,

huge inflation combines with an unemployment rate of 27% for those under 35 years old,

all factors that have increased social inequality in this neighborhood. It angers Medi and he

says he won't vote this Friday. A kilo of meters ten euros, a kilo of

rice is three euros. The liter of petrol is 25 cents. Life has become hard in Iran. There's

no guarantee for tomorrow. Now, I try to take 50 cents less from my clients than the fixed

price of the state, because here there are people without money. You can't afford anything.

In this poor neighborhood in southern Tehran, residents are concerned about one thing above

all. They're purchasing power. The price of life is breaking our backs. Firstly, access to basic

commodities. There are many people who cannot build a life. They find it hard to pay their

rent, for example. Mahmoud Ahmadinejans Iran's former president from 2005 to 2013 has a lot

of support here. These sociologists say that people here are currently threatened with

eviction. The land area here is small. The town hall ruled that these houses were dilapidated

and they put in place a renovation scheme that will lead to their destruction. These

people already don't have a lot of means, and now they have an additional pressure to leave

their homes. They're going to need to live in the suburbs, further south, because they can't

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