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TEHRAN BLOG: Dizzying descent of rial gives rise to ‘Farzin & Khandoozi’
January 12, 2023
New central bank chief and economy minister are apparently grappling with a sinister “man in Istanbul” who’s pulling levers on Iran’s FX market.
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TEHRAN BLOG: Iran takes aim at ‘gambler’ and ‘political dwarf’ Aliyev as Azerbaijan tensions simmer
November 11, 2022
Amid rows over Baku’s designs on Armenian territory, Iranian establishment figure claims Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev has been “taunting” Iran and implicitly threatening its neighbour with a military attack.
TEHRAN BLOG: There’s no revolution on the horizon, but something has broken
October 27, 2022
Anti-regime protests have fundamentally shifted the bounds of what is and what’s not possible in the Islamic Republic.
TEHRAN BLOG: Will the protests be crushed or could the Islamic regime fall?
October 5, 2022
Opinion divided among Iran watchers as unrest nears end of a third week.
TEHRAN BLOG: Iran's new chief justice sends shivers through Iranian expatriate community
August 11, 2021
There’s no guarantee expatriates and exiled citizens will be allowed to leave Iran should they return to settle personal legal matters says Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i.
