The Statistical Center of the Iranian regime announced that the year-on-year inflation rate in June reached 88.6%. The annual inflation rate for June was also reported at 62%, representing an increase of 4.3% compared with May.
Year-on-year inflation refers to the percentage change in the consumer price index compared with the same month of the previous year. Accordingly, in June 2026, households across the country spent an average of 88.6% more than they did in June 2025 to purchase the same basket of goods and services.
While the nationwide year-on-year inflation rate was reported at 88.6%, the Statistical Center said that year-on-year inflation in rural areas exceeded 108% in June.
For food, beverages, and tobacco products, the nationwide year-on-year inflation rate reached 134.6%.
Iran was involved in a 12-day war with Israel during the summer of last year and, in January 2026, experienced nationwide January protests and a 40-day war with the United States and Israel. These factors, along with severe international sanctions and widespread corruption within the country’s economic system, may be among the reasons for the country’s sharp economic slowdown.
In mid-June, a senior official from the Iranian regime’s Interior Ministry said that “60%” of Iran’s citizens could no longer endure additional economic pressure and were not “hopeful about improving conditions in the future.”
