US sanctions are causing crippling shortages for many Iranians. But far from bringing the Islamic Republic to its knees, the sanctions are an opportunity for elites to remodel the economy and find new ways of profiting from misery.
Simultaneously with the intensification of executions in Iran, Ali Saber Motlagh, a political prisoner from the 1980s, and Kamran Rezaei, one of the detainees of the 2019 protests, have been executed.
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