Tehran Traders Report Business Collapse as Sanctions and War Erode Economy
🏭 TEHRAN — The regime is pre-explaining economic pain, but the streets got there first. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Street-level collapse confirms what Tehran's defiance rhetoric was designed to preempt. With Chinese buyers squeezing oil prices and secondary sanctions targeting India next, the fiscal buffer is gone. Trader fear of "further pressure" signals the population is pricing in worse — before Washington even pulls the trigger.
