{"id":4589,"date":"2025-12-05T10:48:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/irans-currency-falls-to-a-new-low-as-nuclear-sanctions-squeeze-its-ailing-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:48:48","slug":"irans-currency-falls-to-a-new-low-as-nuclear-sanctions-squeeze-its-ailing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/irans-currency-falls-to-a-new-low-as-nuclear-sanctions-squeeze-its-ailing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s currency falls to a new low as nuclear sanctions squeeze its ailing economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 Iran\u2019s rial currency fell Wednesday to a new low of 1.2 million to the U.S. dollar as nuclear sanctions squeeze Tehran\u2019s ailing economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Traders offered the new exchange rate as attempts so far to restart negotiations between America and Iran<\/a> over its nuclear program appear stalled.<\/p>\n

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The new record low is increasing pressure on food prices and other costs have been making daily life that much more challenging for Iranians<\/a>. Prices are up on meat, rice and other staples of the Iranian dinner table.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, people worry about a new round of fighting between Iran and Israel \u2014 as well as potentially the United States \u2014 after June\u2019s 12-day war.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife will not only become more difficult for ordinary people, but it will also fuel public concern over whether the government \u2014 given the limited inflow of foreign currency<\/a> caused by sanctions \u2014 has the resources to maintain and repair the country\u2019s aging infrastructure,\u201d said Ali Moshtagh, a 53-year-old electrical engineer.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s economy has been severely affected by international sanctions, particularly after U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran\u2019s nuclear deal<\/a> with world powers in 2018. At the time of the 2015 deal, which saw Iran drastically limit its enrichment and stockpiling of uranium in exchange for lifting of international sanctions, the rial traded at 32,000 to the dollar.<\/p>\n

After Trump returned to the White House for his second term in January, he restarted his so-called \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign targeting Tehran with sanctions. He again went after firms trading Iranian crude oil, including those selling at a discount in China.<\/p>\n

In late September, the United Nations reimposed nuclear sanctions on Iran <\/a>via what diplomats referred to as its \u201csnapback\u201d mechanism. Those sanctions again freeze Iranian assets abroad, halt arms deals with Tehran and penalize any development of Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program, among other measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 Iran\u2019s rial currency fell Wednesday to a new low of 1.2 million to the U.S. dollar as nuclear sanctions squeeze Tehran\u2019s ailing economy. Traders offered the new exchange rate as attempts so far to restart negotiations between America and Iran over its nuclear program appear stalled. The new record low is increasing <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}