Best of luck to the people of Iran!

The protests began on Sunday afternoon after mobile phone and electronics shopkeepers in Tehran shut their stores as the rial currency fell to a record low of 1.42 million to the dollar
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The currency recovered slightly to 1.38 million on Monday evening after the Islamic Republic’s central bank governor resigned but remains down approximately 40 per cent since June.

Iran’s currency collapse is compounding severe inflation. The state statistics centre reported inflation reached 42.2 per cent in December, up 1.8 percentage points from November.

Food prices surged 72 per cent, and health and medical items rose 50 per cent compared to the same period last year.
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The rial was trading at 32,000 to the dollar in 2015 when Iran signed a nuclear accord with world powers that lifted international sanctions.

That agreement collapsed after Mr Trump withdrew the United States from it in 2018.
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Mostafa Tajzadeh, the imprisoned Iranian politician and prominent dissident, said: “Now the time has come for all those who want a prosperous, free, and independent Iran to speak with one voice and call for the separation of religious institutions from political institutions, for the clergy to hand power back to the people, and to return to their traditional base in the seminaries.

“The safest and most reliable way out of the crises is to convene a constituent assembly and amend the constitution in line with the will of the nation.”