Maybe they just wanted a faster missile with a bigger warhead
Maybe. But what we do know for sure is that the IRGC regime is degrading rapidly, and that
the economy is hanging on the precipice of oblivion. Little wonder protests are proliferating.
Might I ask why you show so little sympathy for the plight of the Iranian citizens?
What I find even more disturbing is your positive sounding sympathies toward the IRGC junta.
All you ever talk about is their imminent victory, and cheer them on after every missile is launched against their neighbors.
These very same neighbors who always condemn the IRGC for their irrational aggression afterward.
The
Iran street/open-market rate is roughly:
1 USD ≈ 1,750,000 to 1,875,000 Iranian rials
or, in Iran’s usual street quoting:
So the inverse is approximately:
1 Iranian rial ≈ $0.00000053 to $0.00000057 USD
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Before the 1979 revolution, the rial was about:
1 USD ≈ 70 Iranian rials
So:
1 Iranian rial ≈ $0.014 USD, or about
1.4 U.S. cents.
A more precise historical figure from FRED/Penn World Table gives
1978: 70.51 rials per U.S. dollar and
1979: 70.51 rials per dollar.
In Iranian street terms, that was:
1 USD ≈ 7 tomans, since
1 toman = 10 rials.
Compare that with today’s street/open-market range around
1.8 million rials per USD: that implies the rial has lost roughly
25,000× versus the late-Shah era exchange rate, depending on the exact current street quote used.
Iran International similarly notes that the dollar traded around
70 rials for several years before the 1979 revolution.
