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Tehran’s grocery stores are well-stocked, but many Iranian families can barely afford the basics. Nearly six months into the war, food, medicine and everything except heavily subsidized gasoline have become far more expensive as Iran's economy takes a beating from sanctions and a naval blockade. Unemployment is soaring and people with jobs are working more hours yet earn money worth half as much as a year ago. Whether this intensifying economic pressure will translate anytime soon into military or political concessions from Iran remains to be seen. But some experts are skeptical. They say U.S. President Donald Trump may be underestimating how long Iran can hold out.