re: #262 NJDhockeyfan

Report: Cyber attackers disrupt Internet in Iran

Heh.

some positive signs things are working
Iranian police clash with protesters over currency plunge

“Everyone wants to buy dollars and it’s clear there’s a bit of a bank run,” said a Western diplomat based in Tehran.

“Ahmadinejad’s announcement of using police against exchangers and speculators didn’t help at all. Now people are even more worried.”
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A shopkeeper who sells household goods there told Reuters that the instability of the rial was preventing merchants from quoting accurate prices.

I imagine the internet outage contributes to that. Nobody’s sure what the exchange rate between rials and dollars might be.