*Skeptics will say a handful of shoplifting accounts prove nothing. Fair enough. So look at the data underneath them, which comes from the regime’s own statisticians.*
*The Statistical Center of Iran recorded point-to-point food and beverage inflation of 113.8 percent in March against the same month a year earlier. Bread and cereals rose 140 percent. Milk, cheese, and eggs climbed 116.8 percent. The rial, meanwhile, has been in free fall. A dollar bought roughly 1.5 million rials in January. By July it was fetching more than 1.94 million on the open market.*
*Miad Maleki, an associate fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former Treasury Department sanctions official, told Fox News Digital that the store accounts are anecdotal but consistent with the hard numbers.*
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Terrorists take everything, spend it on terrorism, basic things fall apart *like trucks* to compound the poverty. There has been a trucking problem in Iran going on so long it’s like a tradition by now.
The British trucker strike hit like a world war, while only lasting a moment.
>The Iranian newspaper Jahan-e Sanat published an investigation Wednesday in which supermarket workers described customers slipping cheap food items into their clothing or eating packaged goods off the shelf without paying. Cheese. Butter. Pastries. Meat. One employee, speaking to the paper, said he had watched it happen repeatedly over the previous ten months and believed poverty was the reason. He was careful not to condemn the people doing it, observing instead that a person who steals something small is usually a person under enormous pressure.
Welcome to the late stage Soviet Union, where your pay is no good because the other guy didn’t get his because his people didn’t get theirs because nobody gets anything.
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*Skeptics will say a handful of shoplifting accounts prove nothing. Fair enough. So look at the data underneath them, which comes from the regime’s own statisticians.*
*The Statistical Center of Iran recorded point-to-point food and beverage inflation of 113.8 percent in March against the same month a year earlier. Bread and cereals rose 140 percent. Milk, cheese, and eggs climbed 116.8 percent. The rial, meanwhile, has been in free fall. A dollar bought roughly 1.5 million rials in January. By July it was fetching more than 1.94 million on the open market.*
*Miad Maleki, an associate fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former Treasury Department sanctions official, told Fox News Digital that the store accounts are anecdotal but consistent with the hard numbers.*
Terrorists take everything, spend it on terrorism, basic things fall apart *like trucks* to compound the poverty. There has been a trucking problem in Iran going on so long it’s like a tradition by now.
The British trucker strike hit like a world war, while only lasting a moment.
>The Iranian newspaper Jahan-e Sanat published an investigation Wednesday in which supermarket workers described customers slipping cheap food items into their clothing or eating packaged goods off the shelf without paying. Cheese. Butter. Pastries. Meat. One employee, speaking to the paper, said he had watched it happen repeatedly over the previous ten months and believed poverty was the reason. He was careful not to condemn the people doing it, observing instead that a person who steals something small is usually a person under enormous pressure.
Welcome to the late stage Soviet Union, where your pay is no good because the other guy didn’t get his because his people didn’t get theirs because nobody gets anything.