{"id":8387,"date":"2025-12-29T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8387"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:27:31","slug":"8387","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/29\/8387\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/head-of-irans-central-bank-resigns-amid-protests-as-rial-hits-record-low-against-the-dollar\">\u201cHead of Iran&#8217;s Central Bank resigns amid protests as rial hits record low against the dollar,\u201d<\/a> PBS, 12-29-25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranintl.com\/en\/202512289252\">\u201cIran developing unconventional warheads for ballistic missiles, sources say,\u201d<\/a> Iran International, 12-29-25.\u00a0 Just another reminder of the Regime&#8217;s poor choices, to spend money on unneeded armaments when the economy and domestic needs are so great.<\/p>\n<p>These traders reflect the economy, and are one of the few places (near the Grand Bazaar in central Tehran) to get U.S. dollars and a real exchange rate (much higher than the official rate which no one gets).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/12\/29\/irans-currency-collapse-sparks-second-day-of-trader-protests\">\u201cIran\u2019s currency collapse sparks second day of trader protests,\u201d<\/a> Europe News, 12-29-25.\u00a0\u00a0Note the video, where they\u2019re chanting, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid, we&#8217;re together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHead of Iran&#8217;s Central Bank resigns amid protests as rial hits record low against the dollar,\u201d PBS, 12-29-25. \u201cIran developing unconventional warheads for ballistic missiles, sources say,\u201d Iran International, 12-29-25.\u00a0 Just another reminder of the Regime&#8217;s poor choices, to spend money on unneeded armaments when the economy and domestic needs are so great. These traders &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/12\/29\/8387\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8404,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}