You saw first hand the effect of a generation plus of ever increasing
crippling sanctions ........ a worthless currency;sanctions imposed by
the UN and countless other countries around the globe.
There is much to read here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran
They all started after this :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
Image 139 / 147 is the one that appealed to me the most. I could have it
printed large and hung on the wall for long time viewing enjoyment. One
image in your gallery I saw yesterday but which is no longer up for
viewing was identical to 139 / 147 except for a string of black freight
wagons on the left most third of the railway tracks.
jh
On 4/28/2016 9:37 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
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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