Why hasn’t Iran collapsed? It’s a question that haunts economists and political observers alike: how has Iran, battered by crisis after crisis—from oil booms to hyperinflation, from revolution to cryptocurrency panics—avoided total social and economic breakdown?
As social classes are upended and household budgets are squeezed ever tighter, most nations w…
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