{"id":27774,"date":"2026-01-31T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=27774"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:33:41","slug":"the-currency-crisis-behind-irans-protest-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=27774","title":{"rendered":"The currency crisis behind Iran\u2019s protest explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IRAN-CURRENCY-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C680&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"An Iranian trader counts money in Tehran's Grand Bazaar. Photo: Reuters\/Raheb Homavandi\"><\/figure>\n<p>In early January, several currency trackers briefly displayed the Iranian rial\u2019s value as \u201c$0.00,\u201d unable to process the speed and scale of the depreciation, making it unexchangeable on important international trading platforms. The fallout quickly translated into a protest in Teheran\u2019s bazaar district and eventually led to a mass unrest. Unlike the 2019 fuel price [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/01\/the-currency-crisis-behind-irans-protest-explosion\/\">The currency crisis behind Iran\u2019s protest explosion<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/\">Asia Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early January, several currency trackers briefly displayed the Iranian rial\u2019s value as \u201c$0.00,\u201d unable to process the speed and scale of the depreciation, making it unexchangeable on important international&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}