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Iran follows in North Korea’s footsteps, plans to redenominate currency
A little over a month after the turmoil caused in North Korea by the redenomination of their currency (read: North Korea Changes Currency and Rates 100 to 1), Iran has also announced a similar plan.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the country would “remove zeros from its national currency, the rial, in order to make [...]
Iranian’s shift protest movement to banknotes
Protesters in Iran have launched what they are calling a “second level” of protesting, shifting from overt public displays such as street demonstrations and rallies, to more covert tactics like writing protest notes and slogans on rial banknotes – the Iranian currency.
With staunch government crackdowns on protest movements throughout the country, pro-democracy protesters are focusing [...]
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