US Sanctions Grind Iranian Economy, Media Cites 'Conditions'
Al-Monitor reports shopkeepers in Tehran closed stores due to 'economic hardships' and a collapsing rial. The US dollar, apparently, now trades at 1.42 million rials, up from 820,000 a year ago. What a baffling, organic shift, as if economies just decide to crater. No mention, of course, that decades of crushing US sanctions, meticulously crafted to choke Iran's economy, might have something to do
with those 'hardships.' It's just 'conditions,' like bad weather. Imagine reporting on a broken leg and ignoring the truck that just hit the patient. These '$1.42 million rials to the dollar' aren't spontaneous market fluctuations; they are the direct, intended outcome of a 'maximum pressure' campaign designed precisely to inflict suffering and destabilize a government. But no, let's call it
'economic conditions'—a tidy euphemism to avoid implicating the architects of this economic warfare, whose policies routinely achieve exactly what they claim to deplore.