Iran Staggers as Sanctions Hit Economy - NYTimes.com

Iran Staggers as Sanctions Hit Economy - NYTimes.com:

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Kaveh Kazemi

A currency exchange office in Tehran displaying rates in a window. Sanctions over nuclear efforts have starved Iran of cash.

The owner of a bus manufacturing company here admits that he is a man who likes his routines, and so every day he continues to commute to his downtown office. There he orders cups of tea, barks orders to his factory foremen over the phone and signs a steady flow of papers his employees put on his desk.

“It looks like I’m working, right?” the owner, Bahman Eshghi, said, folding his hands. “No. In reality I am praying, either for a miracle to save our economy or for a fool to come in and buy my factory.”"

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