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Sanctions against Iran are biting the economy hard. Prices are rising and incomes are falling. The goal is to persuade the government to drop its nuclear program, but it is the ordinary people who are paying the price.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Photo: Wiki Commons)
Sanctions against Iran are biting the economy hard. Prices are rising and incomes are falling.
The goal is to persuade the government to drop its nuclear program, but it is the ordinary people who are paying the price.
Anchor Marco Werman talks to a resident of Tehran (interviewee not named on request).