Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

What happens when money stops working? In Iran, that question is no longer rhetorical. In the span of a week, a cascade of economic failures from a collapsing currency to surging food prices has pushed one of the country's most stable constituencies, its bazaar merchants, into open revolt. What...

"When the bazaar shuts, then the system is already in trouble. This proverb which has been a part of the Iranian political tradition has taken on a new urgency as retailers and traders close down their businesses in protest against a failing currency. This issue started as an economic...

At least ten undersea cables in the Baltic Sea have been broken or damaged in the last three years in circumstances seen as suspicious, a dramatic rise in such breakages and damage since there were virtually none over the last twenty years. Such a spike is also accompanied by...