Monday, July 9, 2012

“It has become a humanitarian issue,” said Mehrdad Emadi, an Iranian economic co…

"It has become a humanitarian issue," said Mehrdad Emadi, an Iranian economic consultant based in the UK. "The economy is gradually being strangled and factories dependent on free trade are withering away. At the micro level, people are having to take basic decisions about food consumption, which is very painful."


Iran's food costs soar and unemployment spirals as nuclear sanctions begin to bite – Telegraph
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Iranians are abandoning traditional eating habits, being thrown out of work at alarming rates and face running short of medicines as the nation braces itself for fresh sanctions aimed at forcing its leaders to scrap their suspect nuclear programme.


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