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Covering #Iran & #MidEast, especially what MSM won't Have a passion for exposing Tehran apologists/lobbyists

Aug 9, 2018, 8 tweets

#BREAKING from #Iran
US dollar price for travellers = 106,000 rials

#BREAKING from #Iran
US dollar price reaching the 110,000 rial mark at currency exchanges, sources say.

#BREAKING
@Tasnimnews_Fa reports:
"9 billion dollars in [government] currency has been lost"
tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1397/0…

And people ask why #Iran's economy is in ruins?
And why #IranProtests continue?

Unbridled corruption is just one answer...

This image shows $3 million in cash.

Now multiply it 3,000 times, you have $9 billion, the amount of government currency recently "gone missing" in #Iran.
(See above tweet in this thread)

Welcome to Iran under the mullahs regime.

Solution: #IranRegimeChange

#BREAKING from #Iran
US dollar trading at 109,000 rials in Tehran's Ferdowsi St. currency exchanges, sources say.

The mullahs' economic meltdown continues...

On the $9 billion in #Iran's government currency that has "gone missing," (see above tweets in this thread), here's something to think about:

-The Burj Khalifa & its complex cost $2.1 billion.
-With $9bn you can purchase around 100 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets.

While #Iran's regime will claim its inflation rate hovers around 10%, don't believe any of that.

Here's the true inflation rate reported by Prof. @steve_hanke.

Regarding $9 bn that has "gone missing" in #Iran:

-Equal to 27 months of subsidies for all Iranians.

-GDP of more than 75 countries is lower than $9 bn.

-With a $ trading at around 100,000 rials, this money could provide the salary of more than 6.7 million Iranian workers.

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