What? I'm not sure what you mean. There is not much evidence of sanctions
currently that I could see. The merchants would all have preferred to have
free exchange of currency. We had to carry around millions of Rials to buy
a piece of bread. Certainly something needs to be done about the Iranian
currency. Everybody agreed that there needed to be a reform of the rial
and the toman - Iranian currencies. The Iranian people seem to agree that
something has to be done about the exchange rate which is beyond
ridiculous.
Tina
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:22 PM, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tina ........ other than image 68 / 147 possibly, "Charity Bread", there
> is no perceptible evidence of a nation suffering the travails of a
> generation of crippling economic sanctions. In fact many of the images of
> food vendors and the interiors of shopping malls suggest otherwise. Where
> on your travels did you see hard evidence of the sanctions emanating from
> the dictat of the Great Satan images of which you captured aplenty?
>
> jh
>
> On 4/28/2016 7:21 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> PESO:
>>
>> When we went back to Iran, we visited in passing the town where we used to
>> live. In 1976, Arak was a small village of about 10,000 people. Tom's
>> aluminum plant was the only thing there in the middle of the desert.
>> Everything had to be brought in by train. The Shah put the plant there to
>> provide employment for the people even though there was no reason based on
>> resources to have it there. When we visited, everything had totally
>> changed. The small village is now a huge industrial city of over 500,000
>> people. The nuclear power plant is there. We found the aluminum plant
>> and
>> our neighborhood but could not find our house or anything else! I did
>> find
>> the train station that I photographed in 1976:
>>
>>
>> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000H19S3nRtJXw
>>
>> 40 years later, it has changed, too. The local people said there is never
>> that much snow anymore.
>>
>>
>> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I00005b_A.Jr8VKI
>>
>> Interesting for Tom and me and but I'm not sure whether the new photos
>> will
>> sell! Not nearly as romantic, anyway ;-)
>>
>> Tina
>>
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