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Iran's parliament to question president over economic woes

 

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's parliament plans a special session to question President Hassan Rouhani about the plummeting currency and struggling economy.

 

The parliament's website said Wednesday that Rouhani must appear within a month in an open session to answer questions.

His administration has already replaced the central bank governor and taken other measures to shore up the currency, which hit a new low this week.

The rial has slipped since the U.S. pulled out of the nuclear deal in May and said it would restore sanctions that had been lifted in exchange for Iran curbing its atomic activities.

Iran is negotiating with other world powers that are parties to the deal in a bid to salvage it.

Lawmakers plan to separately question Labor Minister Ali Rabiei over the 12.5 percent unemployment rate.

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Increasingly desperate Iranians open to any option that could ease economic quagmire
A woman walks past a wall painting in a street in Tehran on Tuesday. US president Donald Trump has said  he would be willing to meet his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, without preconditions. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA
A woman walks past a wall painting in a street in Tehran on Tuesday. US president Donald Trump has said he would be willing to meet his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, without preconditions. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA
Thomas Erdbrink in Tehran
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Iran’s leaders cannot stand the thought of talking to the United States and say its president, Donald Trump, cannot be trusted. But Jamshid Moniri, a 45-year-old building contractor sweating under the Tehran summer sun, summed up what many ordinary Iranians think.

“Of course we should talk to Trump,” he said. “What is wrong with talks? “We’d be nuts not to talk to him.”

Trump, who withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran in May despite Iran’s documented compliance, said on Monday he was ready to sit down with Iran’s leaders “without preconditions”.

“I’ll meet with anybody,” Trump said in Washington. “If they want to meet, I’ll meet. Anytime they want.”

On Tuesday, in Tehran, Trump’s open invitation seemed to be on everybody’s mind. Increasingly desperate, many say they would welcome any option that could ease Iran’s economic quagmire. The Iranian currency, the rial, has lost 80 per cent of its value during the past year – and nearly 20 per cent just in the past few days.

Foreign investors have left to avoid new US sanctions that take effect starting in less than a week. And almost every week low-level protests over prices or wages erupt somewhere in the country that have the potential to spread if the economic freefall worsens.

Moniri, the contractor, said he feared that what is considered bad now could get a lot worse. “So we should welcome talks,” he said. “Our leaders should welcome this opportunity.”

But if anything, Iran’s leaders seem paralysed by Trump’s offer. Direct talks with the United States go against their ideology. And in their minds, sitting down publicly with Trump, whom they have called particularly ignorant, capricious, arrogant and rude, would be an especially humiliating submission to imperialism and pressure.

Anti-Americanism
When dealing with the United States over the past decades, Iranian leaders have often preferred to do it through secret talks, far away from ordinary Iranians, who are bombarded daily with organised anti-Americanism from their schoolbooks to state television.


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“There can only be talks when Trump respects the signatures of the US administration in the nuclear agreement,” said Hossein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. “Trump should reverse the pullout from the nuclear deal, or else there will be no talks.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, who has enshrined anti-Americanism as a tenet of his legacy, made clear after Trump renounced the nuclear agreement that he would never talk with the US leader. “Trump will wither away, perish, and his body will decompose, but the Islamic Republic will still be thriving,” Khamenei proclaimed in a speech.

His review was reinforced on Tuesday, by the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the powerful paramilitary force that is intensely loyal to Khamenei. “Mr Trump! Iran is not North Korea to accept your offer for a meeting,” said the commander, Maj Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari, in remarks quoted by Reuters. “Even US presidents after you will not see that day.”

But many ordinary Iranians said they thought direct talks with Trump could be a pathway to solving Iran’s most pressing problems.

Sitting behind the wheel of a Peugeot 206, a French car produced in Iran, Ghader Safarzadeh explained that he thinks of himself as a patient man. His spotless car resembled his well-kept black mustache. Living off a dwindling pension, Safarzadeh works a couple of days a week as a taxi driver. He calculated that with the rising dollar, a cab ride that last year earned him the equivalent of $5 now made him $1.50 (€1.28).

“We can’t live like this for very long,” he said.

‘They are both bad’
Priced in rials, the costs of houses and cars have quickly doubled. At the Allaedin mobile phone bazaar, an iPhone X now costs four times more in rials than a year ago. People fear their wages in the Iranian currency could soon become practically worthless. The French school in Tehran is seeking teachers from abroad, but can offer a salary of only 20 million rials, or €390, a month.

There seemed no doubt in Safarzadeh’s mind that his leaders must talk to Trump. “What should be first is the economic welfare of the people,” he said. Anti-Americanism had held Iran back, and especially now, with an unpredictable leader in the United States, it was dangerous, Safarzadeh said. “Our leaders need to be wise and talk to this man,” he said. “Everybody else is doing it, why should we be different?”

Others said they had no idea who to trust anymore. “They are both bad, Trump and our leaders,” said Shahnaz Bagheri, a widow in her 60s. The past year had been tough for her. Her husband died after a long illness, Bagheri said, and she has been overtaken by economic worries. “Sanctions, devaluation – what should come of us?” she said.

For Bagheri, Trump and Iran’s ruling establishment are doing the same disservice. “They are bothering ordinary people,” she said. “They all speak as if they care for Iranians, but in reality all pressure is on us.”

Still, Bagheri expressed doubt that direct talks between Trump and President Hassan Rouhani of Iran would automatically help improve the lives of ordinary Iranians. “This Trump has many complexes and he is not interested in compromise, so talking to him might mean we end up losing even more,” Bagheri said. “I just want a better life for our people.”

The economic problems, combined with dozens of corruption cases that have exposed high-level greed, have made it difficult for Iran’s leaders to convince people that talking to the United States is a bad option, something supreme leader Khamenei highlighted in a speech two weeks ago.


“Of course Trump is manipulating our people by calling for talks,” said Nader Karimi Joni, a journalist and activist critical of Iran’s government. “He knows our leaders will decline. For ordinary people in Iran, it doesn’t matter whether Trump can be trusted, is crazy or even is serious about really negotiating. They just hear Trump wants to talk and our leaders don’t.”

Rumours
Iran’s leadership has been trying to show the appearance of unity, and has taken on a defensive posture. Faced with the unpredictable Trump, both Rouhani and several commanders warned that they could close the Strait of Hormuz, a key passageway for global oil traffic, whenever they like.

But not everybody believes that would accomplish much. “Let’s face it,” said Reza Asghari, a 50-year old businessman. “We can’t really close off the strait without inviting US military action. In fact, we can’t even make preconditions for direct talks. Who are we to do that? We need jobs, not more tension.”

Rumours are swirling across Tehran that secret talks with the United States have already begun. On Friday the foreign minister of Oman, the Persian Gulf sultanate that hosted the secret meetings between Iranian and US officials that led to the nuclear talks, may visit Tehran. The minister, Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, was in Washington last week.

Some Iranians have expressed hope that Russia, which supports the nuclear agreement and has sought to strengthen strategic ties with Iran, will help cushion the effect of reimposed US sanctions. But Russia-Iran relations have their own tense history. The countries are rivals in oil production. Many Iranians mistrust Russia over what they view as its past failures to honour agreements on arms sales and energy.

“We are betting on the Russians for support, but they have betrayed us many times,” said Kheba Majidi, a 35-year old master’s student of Islamic theology, who was walking home from the green grounds of Tehran University. “Our officials should be wise before it’s too late and start negotiations publicly. Why not try the Americans?” – New York Times

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Iranian lawmakers have given President Hassan Rouhani one month to appear before parliament to answer questions on his government’s handling of Iran’s economic struggles, state media reported on Wednesday, according to Reuters. 

It is the first time parliament has summoned Rouhani, who is under pressure from hardline rivals to change his cabinet following a deterioration in relations with the United States and Iran’s growing economic difficulties.
Lawmakers want to question Rouhani on topics including the rial’s decline, which has lost more than half its value since April, weak economic growth and rising unemployment, according to semi-official ISNA news agency.
Rouhani, a pragmatist who reduced tensions with the West by striking a nuclear deal in 2015, is facing a growing backlash since U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out from the pact in May and said he will reimpose sanctions that seek to throttle Iran’s economy, including its lifeblood oil exports.
ISNA said lawmakers also want Rouhani to explain why, more than two years after the landmark deal, Iranian banks still have only limited access to global financial services.
The nuclear accord curbed Iran’s nuclear program in return for lifting most international sanctions.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/30180/Iran-MPs-summon-Rouhani-as-U-S-pressure-squeezes-economy

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I guess Corruption was doing fine so long as everything was coming up roses. Now it’s weeds growing everywhere so it’s time to point fingers “ at the real problem makers “ - 

How could there be any corruption within such a devine and trusted country as Iran. Their religion would forbid works of the devil right under their self righteous noses...  🙄

 

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How Iran tried to play victim by hoodwinking the global community

 

US President Donald Trump’s recent dealings with North Korea showed the American administration’s serious intent and real power. Iran, however, is a different matter entirely. Tehran depends on terror, with the regime using its militias all over the world to spread its ideology. I believe Iran is more dangerous than Pyongyang, so the first priority must be countering its terrorism.

Tehran has always benefited from conflicts in the region, through its militias and by using them to spread its ideology of sectarian strife. The regime has constructed two well-known, but absolutely fallacious, media narratives. The first is that Iran is fighting terrorism that originates from Sunni countries, which targets the West as well as Iran. The second is that it wants to be an ally of Europe and the West in the struggle against terrorism.

Another of Iran’s familiar speeches is aimed at the entire Muslim world. The regime says that it is fighting imperialism and international Zionism to liberate Palestine. This is an attempt to brainwash hundreds of thousands of Muslims all over the world and convince them to embrace its slogans: "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."

Iran has hosted terrorist militias and organizations since the 1980s. Al-Qaeda is one of the militias that moved there, after it was chased out of Saudi Arabia when the Saudi government declared it a terrorist organization.

Al-Qaeda leaders moved to Afghanistan under the protection of the Taliban, and then to Iran to find safe haven during the US-led war in Afghanistan. It was a flawed war on terror because the Americans allowed Tehran, the mother of terror, once again to shelter its adherents.

If we look back at the history of Al-Qaeda and its attacks on US military sites in Saudi Arabia, we must remember also that attacks against American Marines by the so-called Hezbollah in Lebanon took place before any attacks by Al-Qaeda. We find that Al-Qaeda followed the lead of the terrorist Iranian militia. Also, if we look at the two attacks by Al-Qaeda on American embassies in Africa, we can see that Osama Bin Laden was copying Iran’s storming of the US Embassy in Tehran. There are many examples that can be given proving that the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, controls those terrorist militias and other organizations.

Appeasing Tehran, as the former Obama administration did, was a big mistake that was seen by the regime as a green light for it to continue its terrorist activities around the world

Dr. Hamdan Al-Shehri

We remember, too, the attack on the USS Cole in Aden Harbor, Yemen, in October 2000, which was carried out by Al-Qaeda. More recently other militias, including the Houthis, have similarly attacked American warships, as well as Saudi oil tankers. Nobody can deny that Iran had a hand in these happenings.

It is time to put an end to this terror and free the world of Iranian slogans that deceive not only foolish people in our region, but also the world by claiming that all Sunnis, and Saudi Arabia, are threats to Western civilization. They do this by endlessly repeating that 15 Saudis were involved in the 9/11 attacks.

We know the originators of this plan aimed to drive a wedge between the US and the Kingdom, and damage the alliance between the countries. Both helped Afghanistan at the time of the Soviet invasion, but I want to focus here on what Prince Khalid bin Salman, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, wrote in his recent article in Arab News titled: "Why Iran’s malign behavior must be confronted – not appeased."

He differentiated clearly between the policies of Saudi Arabia and Iran. We see that Saudi Arabia arrests terrorists and never allows them to escape, because Riyadh is countering terrorism. On the other hand, in Iran we never see the arrest of anybody for terrorism. Instead, it creates and trains militias as part of the regime’s policy, which explains why Iran has never been attacked by terrorist militias.

Saudi Arabia is part of the international coalition to fight terrorism, but Iran is not. Why?

Saudi Arabia is in the Islamic coalition of more than 40 Muslim countries that have pledged to fight terrorism. Of course, Iran is not. Why?

Saudi Arabia is in the Arab coalition to fight terrorism. Of course, Iran is not, and it fights against the coalition.

Iran has tried many times to play the role of victim, though it never respects international law or the sovereignty of any state. Appeasing Iran, as the former Obama administration did, was a big mistake that was seen by the regime as a green light to continue its terrorist activities around the world. We saw how a very bad nuclear deal with Iran never deterred the country from testing ballistic missiles or stopped its intervention in other countries.

Now, with the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the bad deal, we see Iran using its oil revenues not for the benefit of the Iranian people, who are experiencing a lack of basic services such as water, but to fund terror. For that reason, Trump has imposed an embargo on Iranian oil that will take effect soon.

Although we hear threats from Iranian leaders such as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Minister of Foreign Affairs Javad Zarif and the leader of one of the biggest terrorist militias, Al-Quds Force, all of these actions are steps in the right direction that will ultimately lead to compliance and acceptance of a deal ending terrorism and the era of terrorist militias, or changing of the regime, as has been demanded

 

 

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2 hours ago, jcfrag said:

How could there be any corruption within such a devine and trusted country as Iran. Their religion would forbid works of the devil right under their self righteous noses...  🙄

 

 

Pretty tough to define a bunch of folks “ so full of it “, huh.  I’ll leave it to Webster’s Dictionary to come up with a definition that fits an Epic level of self-indulgence, self loathing, self righteousness &  hypocrisy.

 

The world is in a world of Shyte and “ they ain’t helping matters “

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Editorial Date: 2018/7/31 11:57 • 324 times read
Iran sets a final condition to keep the Strait of Hormuz open
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Iran has put a last condition, in front of the United States, and the world to keep the Straits of Hormuz open.
"The continued existence of the Strait of Hormuz is linked to securing Iranian interests," the commander of the Iranian navy's naval forces, Admiral Hussein Khanzadi, told a news conference on Tuesday (July 31st). He called on the international community to implement its commitments to Tehran, Irna ". 
"The ban on Iran certainly affects the activity of the Strait of Hormuz, and we must know that the outcome of a decision at the international level does not affect only one country, but also affects the actions of others," he said. 
"The Strait of Hormuz is part of Iran's interests, and the naval force has provided security for the strait so far and will do so in the future as well," he said. 
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Our Navy is bigger and badder than Iran's . The man at the US's  trigger is not afraid to pull said trigger to actually protect our interests, or the interests of the free world. Plus there is our ability to make up for a large portion of any oil supply.  If the US takes any action it won't be covert as in Jimmy Carter's time. It will be overt and devastating to Iran's ability to protect themselves. Our Patriot missiles can sink most of Iran's Navy in or out of port;  kinda like when  they tweaked  Syria's Air-force. 

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Rohani: Iran will not give up its right to export oil .. does not seek to tense the situation

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said on Tuesday Tehran was not seeking to create tensions in the region or block Gulf oil flows but would not give up its right to export oil .

Rowhani said in a statement on his official website on July 31 that the United States' withdrawal from the nuclear deal was "illegal" and that the ball had become in Europe's court in maintaining relations with Tehran .

"The Islamic Republic has never sought to create tensions in the region and does not want any problems in the world waterways, but it will not easily relinquish its right to export oil . "

The comments came at a time of heightened tension between Iran and the United States significantly, following the decision of US President Donald Trump in May, to withdraw from the nuclear agreement and the re-imposition of economic sanctions against Tehran, despite the opposition of other parties to the agreement .

The commander of the naval forces in the Iranian army, Admiral Hussein Khanzadi, reported today, that the survival of the Strait of Hormuz open linked to the security of Iranian interests, calling on the international community to implement its obligations to Tehran .

 
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Iranian proposal to establish a hotline between Tehran and Washington

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The head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian Parliament, Hishmatullah Feshat Bishah, said the dialogue with Washington should not become a taboo, accusing a third party of fueling differences between the parties. 
The official said, in a press statement, that Tehran and Washington do not seek to go to war, saying that US President Donald Trump is well aware of his country's inability to confront Iran militarily. 
"A third player is taking control of the differences between Iran and the United States," Peshah said, stressing that the national interests of the two countries would remain in the hands of those who would benefit from escalating tensions unless a hotline between Washington and Tehran was established. 
The official acknowledged that the historical lack of confidence between Tehran and Washington has made it more difficult to connect diplomatic channels between the two sides, in addition to obstacles from third parties, primarily Israel.
At the end of his statement, Beshah cautioned the foreign parties of the continuation of the escalation with Tehran of the consequences for the security of the region as a whole, stressing that Iran pursues "unprecedented strategy" to ease the regional tension.

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Iran to float pricing for Dollar after Rial’s drastic crash

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Street dealers have been cited as the primacy culprits in recent fluctuations in Iran's foreign currency market. Street dealers have been cited as the primacy culprits in recent fluctuations in Iran's foreign currency market.

Iran is working on a plan to create a floating mechanism for pricing the US Dollar to help prevent further depreciation of its national currency which lost its value by above 14 percent within only hours this past Sunday.

The plan would be meant to take the pricing of the hard currency out of the hands of street dealers into a newly established “secondary foreign currency market”.

To the same effect, it would ban the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) from dictating its own rates for the Dollar and would instead peg the value of the hard currency to the actual trading rates as obtained from current transactions between currency suppliers and buyers in a newly established “secondary foreign currency market”.

This would be part of a package of CBI policies which would be unveiled soon for controlling the rates of foreign currencies, Iran’s media reported.

Based on the same package, the rate of the hard currency could fall to as low as Rials 80,000 to 85,000 from the current highs of above Rials 10,000.

Accordingly, the official rate of the dollar – presently set at Rials 42,000 – would be allocated for imports of basic commodities and pharmaceuticals, according to a report by ISNA news agency.

On Sunday, the Rial broke past 11,000 against the Dollar and started a runaway spree that went to as far as 12,000 the following day before settling down at near 10,000 on Tuesday.

CBI’s new chief Abdolnaser Hemmati, on Monday attributed the currency market volatility to the enemies, saying they were out to destroy the country’s assets and instill disappointment among the public.

He was referring to a decision in May by US President Donald Trump to withdraw Washington from a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and announce the return of economic sanctions against Iran.

The sanctions would include a universal ban on Iran over buying or acquiring US Dollars which will come into force on August 7 as well as restrictions over purchases of crude oil from the country and investing in its oil sector projects which will become effective by the start of November.

The return of the sanctions has already forced Iranian officials to look for solutions to maintain business with the outside world. Using the digital currency has been cited as one of those solutions.  

Based on CBI’s upcoming package, major exporters of non-oil products would be obliged to sell their Dollars in the secondary market. A final policy would be to slash into half the amount of Dollars that travelers can buy at Rials 42,000.

On a related front, Masoud Kimiayi Assadi, a member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, was quoted by ISNA as saying that the government would begin to announce the real price of the Dollar as traded between suppliers and buyers in the secondary market as the benchmark exchange rate for the hard currency.

The price of the Dollar, Kimiayi Assadi said, would be floating and the government would no longer dictate its own price on the market and would rather play the role of a “supervisor”.   

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'Death to the dictator!' Violence on streets of Iran as police use tear gas on furious protesters, including chador-clad women, demonstrating against 'corrupt regime' ruining the country while waging ideological war abroad

  • Protests have broken out in a number of cities against Iranian regime this week 
  • Comes after the dramatic drop of Iran's currency and other economic problems
  • 'The nation is forced to beg while the leader lives like God,' protesters chanted 

By KHALEDA RAHMAN FOR MAILONLINE and AFP

 

Iran entered its third day of protests as furious citizens took to the streets to rail against the regime they blame for devastating the country's economy.

Protests have broken out in a number of cities this week over the dramatic drop of the country's currency and other economic problems ahead of the imposition of renewed US sanctions. 

Videos shared online purportedly show some furious Iranians burning tyres and setting fire to police vehicles as demonstrations spun out of control.

Referring to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, many chanted 'death to the dictator' at protests.

'The nation is forced to beg while the leader lives like God,' was also among the furious chants against the Iranian regime at protests, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political organisation founded to oppose the fundamentalist regime ruling Iran. 

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Protesters were reportedly seen burning tyres during demonstrations against the regime
 
 

Iran entered its third day of protests as furious citizens took to the streets to rail against the regime they blame for devastating the country's economy. Pictured, protesters were reportedly seen burning tyres during demonstrations against the regime

On Tuesday and Wednesday, about 200 people demonstrated in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, Iran's state-run news agency IRNA reported.

Police said the demonstrators had attempted to damage public buildings, but were unable to.

In videos circulated on social media and purporting to have been taken in the town of Gohardasht, a suburb of Karaj, dozens of demonstrators can be seen in the streets, setting fire to police vehicles and shouting 'death to the dictator.'

Police responded with tear gas. 

 

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Another video purportedly from Isfahan in central Iran showed protesters setting tyres ablaze in a bid to evade arrest.  

The authenticity of the videos could not immediately be verified.

 

'Scattered protests' of a few hundred people were reported by state news agencies on Thursday, which police had brought under control.

About 100 people took to the streets in the northern city of Sari, as well as unspecified numbers in the cities of Shiraz, Ahavz and Mashhad, IRNA said.

Videos posted on social media have shown days of demonstrations in Isfahan and minor protests in the capital on Thursday night.

So far, they have not been on the scale of the violent unrest that gripped dozens of towns and cities in December and January.

 
Another video purportedly from Isfahan in central Iran showed protesters setting tyres ablaze in a bid to evade arrest, bringing traffic on Khomeini Highway to a halt
 

Another video purportedly from Isfahan in central Iran showed protesters setting tyres ablaze in a bid to evade arrest, bringing traffic on Khomeini Highway to a halt

But anxiety is everywhere, especially over the collapse of the rial, which has lost nearly two-thirds of its value in six months.

'We are seeing protests and they will continue,' Adnan Tabatabai, head of the CARPO think tank in Germany, told AFP.

'The establishment knows they are legitimate but my biggest concern is they will be hijacked by groups inside and outside the country and turn violent.' 

All protests had taken place without official permission and were subsequently broken up by police, the agency said.

A video from Shiraz, a city in south-central Iran, showed a seven-year-old boy who had reportedly had tear gas fired in his face by police.

M. Hanif Jazayeri, with the NCR, who shared the video on Twitter, also shared clips of angry chants from protesters in Karaj.

'Mullahs must answer for wasting Iran's wealth on terror,' he added.

Maryam Rajavi, NCR's president-elect, has said that Iran's economy will not recover until the regime is toppled.

According to the NCR, the Iranian regime spent billions funding war in Syria and conflicts across the Middle East - as well as funding terrorism and supporting proxy groups 'that carry out criminal activities on its behalf.

Protests have broken out in a number of cities this week over the dramatic drop of the country's currency and other economic problems
 
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Protests have broken out in a number of cities this week over the dramatic drop of the country's currency and other economic problems

 

Mrs Rajavi says the disastrous state of the economy in Iran is a direct result of the regime's policies. 

'Protesters will not rest until the Iranian people and the nation are free,' she said.

She added: 'Iran's risen and revolting cities are joining the protests, one after the other.

'The cry for freedom is becoming louder, and the uprising is expanding more and more every moment.

'There is no force more powerful than the united force of young people.' 

After protests broke out on Tuesday, she said: 'Today, the world can see that the voice of Iranians cannot be silence despite massive repression, and their uprisings are carrying on until victory.

'These are the blazing flames of resistance with over 100,000 martyrs, flaring up in the streets after forty years.'

The Iranian rial has dropped to a new record low amid growing concerns of renewed American sanctions, due to kick in on Monday.

'Death to the dictator' and 'the nation is forced to beg while the leader lives like God,' were among the furious chants against the Iranian regime at protests
 
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Scattered protests broke out in several Iranian cities on Thursday to rail against the regime

Scattered protests broke out in several Iranian cities on Thursday to rail against the regime

Earlier, Iranian protesters had clashed with police outside parliament as the plunging rial triggered three days of protests last month in Tehran. 

Iranians are hunkering down for the return of US sanctions with a run on gold and hard currency as they scramble to protect their savings, and sporadic protests over the already troubled economy. 

Many wealthy Iranians are leaving the country, while others have been gripped by a bunker mentality, stocking up on provisions, dollars and gold in order to ride out the storm.

Customers were cheek-to-jowl in the narrow alleys of Tehran's Grand Bazaar this week.

'People are worried that if they don't buy things today, they won't be available tomorrow,' said Ali, who runs a kitchen store in the bazaar, adding that wholesalers were hoarding new stock while they waited to see how the crisis unfolded. 

Multinational firms that rushed to cash in three years ago - such as France's energy giant Total and carmakers Peugeot and Renault - are already packing up.

A decision to fix the exchange rate in April and arrest unlicensed currency dealers backfired spectacularly and triggered a boom in the black market.

About 100 people took to the streets in the northern city of Sari, as well as unspecified numbers in the cities of Shiraz (pictured)
 
About 100 people took to the streets in the northern city of Sari, as well as unspecified numbers in the cities of Shiraz (pictured)
 
 

About 100 people took to the streets in the northern city of Sari, as well as unspecified numbers in the cities of Shiraz (pictured)

The consequences have sometimes felt absurd. One expat described having to meet a trader under a bridge in central Tehran to change $2,000 (1,700 euros).

'He told me to wear a red scarf and came up to me whispering: 'Show me the money' like we were in a spy film,' she said. 

The US walked out of the 2015 nuclear deal in May and is bringing back 'maximum pressure' sanctions for most sectors on August 6, and the energy sector on November 4.

In May, President Donald Trump pulled the US out of a multilateral deal with Iran that was meant to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.

Trump denounced the deal, concluded before he took office, as one-sided in Iran's favour.

The US is bringing back 'maximum pressure' sanctions for most sectors on August 6, and the energy sector on November 4.

But on Monday, he declared that he would be willing to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with 'no preconditions.'

Trump said that as renewed sanctions kick in, he expected Iran would call and offer to return to the negotiating table, and that 'we're ready to make a real deal.'

 
Cars drive by a poster depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Tuesday
 
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Cars drive by a poster depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Tuesday

Former President Barack Obama held a brief phone call with Rouhani in 2013, as the talks that led up to the nuclear deal were getting underway.

It was the first time the presidents of the two countries had spoken since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the storming of the US Embassy, which led to the severing of diplomatic ties.

Although Iran reacted skeptically to Trump saying that he's willing to negotiate with his Iranian counterpart 'anytime,' top officials did not reject a sit-down out of hand.

Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri, a senior cleric and member of the influential Expediency Council, said Trump's suggestion that he would be willing to meet with Rouhani should not be categorically rejected.

'It should be discussed in the Supreme National Security Council,' said Nategh Nouri, who is also a former aide to the Supreme Leader.

Nategh Nouri said 'we have to contemplate' the gesture, but also cautioned 'we should not rejoice over this offer and not get excited.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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