Reuters: Iran will defeat an enemy “conspiracy” against its foreign currency and gold markets, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday, following violent protests that forced the closure of Tehran’s grand bazaar.
Iran will overcome currency “conspiracy”, Khamenei ally says
Iran seen sending own supertanker to deliver oil to South Korea
Bloomberg: An Iranian supertanker is heading to South Korea with a cargo of oil, according to shipping data, as the Islamic republic uses state-owned tankers to make deliveries in response to sanctions over its nuclear program.
US says Iran jamming VOA, other broadcasts
AP: The government-appointed body that oversees Voice of America is accusing Iran of jamming radio and television programming into the Middle East and eastern Europe amid protests in Iran over the Iranian currency crisis.
Iran police on watch after currency protests
AP: Iran deployed riot police at key Tehran intersections on Thursday, after tensions flared over the nation’s plunging currency in the most widespread display of anger linked to the country’s sanctions-hit economy.
EU poised to agree ban on Iranian gas imports
Reuters: The European Union is poised to ban imports of Iranian gas as part of a set of new measures to ratchet up pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme, diplomats said on Thursday.
Iranians abandon meat for bread as Rial drop fires protests
Bloomberg: Iran’s freefalling currency is turning meat into a luxury, sparking overnight price surges and spurring shoppers to stockpile goods.
Europe weighs more sanctions as Iran’s currency plummets
Bloomberg: The U.K., France and Germany are pressing for new sanctions to bring Iran’s economy to its knees and curb its nuclear ambitions, according to several European diplomats, as rioting over the country’s tumbling currency suggests the existing sanctions are taking a toll.
Russia’s Lavrov skipped big powers’ Iran meeting at U.N.
Reuters: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stayed away from a meeting of six world powers on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly last week because he had to attend another “urgent matter,” Russia’s U.N. mission said on Wednesday.
Trade association condemns Tehran unrest as enemy plot: report
Reuters: An Islamic trade association in Iran strongly condemned the protests that flared in Tehran’s main bazaar as an enemy conspiracy and said traders had dealt with the “treacherous” acts, Iran’s state news agency reported late on Wednesday.
Is a gang of 22 destroying Iran’s currency?
Bloomberg: Life used to be so much simpler for an Iranian theocrat. Whenever trouble arose, you could blame it all on one villain: the “Great Satan” that is the U.S. Today, however, it appears that the devil has minions.
