Sep 19, 2012 ... Iranians are reeling under tough economic sanctions imposed by Western  countries since the start of the year over the Islamic Republic's pursuit of its  nuclear programme, which Washington says is a drive to develop a weapons  capability. Inflation is running at 25 percent officially, and could in reality be ...
Iran is the second largest economy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)  region after Saudi Arabia, with an estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of  US$D ... Annual inflation is estimated to have fall below 10 percent in 2016, for  the first time in a quarter of a century due to a less accommodative monetary  policy.
Feb 23, 2014 ... Rising unemployment coupled with an inflation rate of 40 percent (the real figure  is reportedly double this) has eaten away at the country's middle class, with 40  percent of Iranian families now living under the poverty line. In a recent Gallup  poll, 85 percent of Iranians reported that their livelihoods have been ...
In the 1980s, financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight- year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government  to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign  debt payments; Iraq suffered economic losses of at least $80 billion from the war.
The new sanctions are wreaking havoc on the Iranian economy, which relies on  oil exports for about eighty percent of its public revenue. But while the economic  impact of sanctions is becoming apparent, the political impacts have not yet  crystallized. One of the most pressing problems in Iran today is inflation. Inflation  is not ...
Under economic sanctions, "now Iran is suffering 30 percent inflation, 20 percent unemployment."