[dhs12345]

Drill baby drill!

[SeekAndFind]

The reason we say that the acceleration of the collapse of Iran’s economy is much higher than Venezuela is because it took two years for Venezuela’s inflation rate to increase from 57% to 254%, but in Iran it took only five months.

[allendale]

Historically a country only collapses when it purges its productive farmers. The mullahs have been smart enough to leave the farmers alone and cultivate a rural base.

[FLT-bird]

The Trump curse. Bend the knee or face the consequences. LOL!

[I want the USA back]

Hoping Iran goes broke. What did they do with our 15 billion that bammy gave them?

[bert]

And then there is Free Republic where zealots harrangue about American presence in the Mid East. Their sanctimony supports the American enemy Iran

[Buckeye McFrog]

Complain about the economy in Iran and bunch of motorcycle thugs show up and beat you with chains. So the political effects of this will take awhile.

[tomkat]

Will Iran Become the Next Venezuela? Inflation rate "exponential," Economy on Verge of Collapse

Hopefully that'll spark a YUGE uprising and the deaths of multitudes of the lunatic moslem totalitarians holding millions of secular Iranians in bondage.

[McGruff]

Great news!

[vetvetdoug]

Maybe it will make Iraq revalue their Dinar. That’ll make the Ponzi salesmen happy.

[dynachrome]

Just print more money. It worked for zimbabwe./s

[nuconvert]

The risk is currently at about 42,000.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

On the plus side, if Iran fails, it may start the Dominos-a-falling.

[Billthedrill]

Unmentioned, and not visible in the budget either, is the fact that Iran has been exporting revolution for forty years and it tends to be a very expensive business when your budget goes bang in Israel or Syria with no return on investment. Oil income can stave that off for a while but when it finally bites, it's an exponential curve.

They need foreign cash to prop the thing up and they're not getting it from the U.S. due to the sanctions. The Chinese have cash. But these days Chinese money tends to come with some strings attached, as the Kenyans just found out. And the Chinese are famously unsympathetic toward Islamic revolution, at least in their own territory. Perhaps a rapprochement with Russia is in the future?