Twitter users' heated reaction to the drop in currency prices in the Iranian market
The dollar's decline, which began yesterday evening, has drawn many people to exchange offices in various cities to sell their domestic dollars. Iranian media reports of large gatherings on the streets to sell dollars, but some say that in addition to the dollar's low value, many money changers are also unwilling to buy.
A little further away from the streets, the dollar debate is also hot among Twitter users. Tweets that, on the one hand, express joy over the dollar's decline and the subsequent decline in market prices, and on the other hand, criticize users for the rush to sell their dollars.
Alongside these views, a cold war has also erupted between reformist, subversive, and fundamentalist Twitter users, who, more than ever, accuse each other of supporting the government or betraying the people.
By describing the dollar selling market and speculators' refusal to buy, Mehdi Amirpour is protesting against people who themselves complain about hoarders, but "they themselves are among the most hoarders."
The fall in the price of the #dollar ; the influx of people who have brought their domestic dollars to the market to sell, and money changers who do not buy dollars because they know that they will become cheaper. The war to buy dollars has turned into a competition to sell.
A pathetic display of the greed of people who protest against hoarders but are themselves among the most hoarders.
— Mehdi Amirpour (@AmirpoorMehdi) October 1, 2018
But these tweets, which are mostly critical of the current situation in the currency market and the rush of people to sell their dollars, are not limited to a specific group. Najafi Tehrani, a Rouhani user on Twitter, also spoke about the government's deception by raising and lowering the price of the dollar and the people who deal with the deceiver:
They bought dollars when they shouldn't have, and now they sell when they shouldn't. This means that as long as people play by the rules and trade with a government they know is deceitful for a few million tomans of short-term profit, there will be no better fate awaiting them than sinking deeper into the swamp.
— Najafi Tehrani (@najafi_tehrani) October 2, 2018
A user named Churchill also wrote about the presence of people in lines to sell dollars:
People in queues selling #dollars
It's hard for me to say, but I'm glad you're losing money.
People like you are willing to destroy the country with your own will pic.twitter.com/ChRb7LveWM— Churchill (@MrChurchiill) October 1, 2018
