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Is Iran’s Rial in Free Fall?

From On December 3, 2014 · Leave a Comment

by Djavad Salehi-Isfahani The decision announced last Monday in Vienna to extend the talks aimed at a compressive agreement on Iran’s nuclear program for an additional seven months has resulted in Iran’s currency taking dive. In one week, the rial lost more than 5% of its value in the unofficial market. The devaluation has clear political

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Ahmadinejad’s Tumble and Iran’s Political Terrain

From On October 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

Sadeq Zibakalam, University of Tehran professor and the closest the Islamic Republic has to an intra-systemic gadfly, has written an interesting commentary in the new daily Arman regarding the current state of Iranian politics. The article’s title, “End of the Deviation current,” refers to the excuse hardline conservatives in Iran have [...]

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Flat-Lining the Middle Class

From On October 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Economic Numbers to Die For

By Andy Kroll

Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch

Food pantries picked over. Incomes drying up. Shelters bursting with the homeless. Job seekers spilling out the doors of employment centers. College grads moving back in with their parents. The angry and [...]

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Sanctions are Counterproductive, Hurt Ordinary Iranians

From On November 8, 2010 · 1 Comment

At the Middle Eastern affairs journal Muftah, Hani Mansourian takes a well warranted critical look into the human cost of sanctions against Iran.

With Iran seemingly recalcitrant on its nuclear program and the United States unwilling to put up “robust economic, political and strategic incentives that will give Iran’s leaders [...]

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