Mohamad Machine-Chian
Iran International
Mohamad Machinechian is a senior multimedia journalist at Iran International.
Iran International
Mohamad Machinechian is a senior multimedia journalist at Iran International.
Three days after merchants ignited strikes across Iran, the country’s bazaar is now openly defying the Islamic Republic, marking a historic break between conservative traders and a state accused of sacrificing livelihoods to missiles and security spending.
Tehran’s newly announced fuel price changes have been presented as a long-overdue reform of an unsustainable subsidy system, but they amount to an undeclared form of austerity aimed at rolling back subsidies with minimal political exposure.
