Various Iranian officials scramble to come up with vaguely defined measures to deal with U.S. sanctions.
The presidents of Russia, Turkey, and Iran meet on September 7 for a summit in Tehran amid hopes that they will be able to avert a bloody fight in the last opposition stronghold in Syria where forces have been amassing for battle.
Two reformist members of the Iranian Parliament have called for putting major domestic and foreign policy issues to a public vote. In their speeches on September 4, Parvaneh Salahshouri and Gholamreza Heidari called for a referendum to solve problems regarding foreign policy, state TV, the Guardian Council's intervention in elections, and the Assembly of Experts' supervision of the supreme leader's behavior.
A study conducted by the Research Center of the Iranian Parliament says that the current unemployment figures in Iran are alarming. The results of the study were published on the parliament's website and indicate that the soaring unemployment over the past four years "may give rise to a crisis."
Iran may be considering a plan to ration foodstuffs and other essential commodities, according to reports of developments at the Iranian Parliament.
The Iranian Parliament's Research Center has forecasted two dystopian economic growth rates for Iran by the end of the Iranian year (March 20, 2019) as a result of the U.S. pull-out from the nuclear deal with Tehran: an optimistic forecast rate of -0.5 percent and a pessimistic scenario in which the economic growth rate will be -2.8 percent.
The head of Iran's Central Bank has reiterated that the country's foreign currency reserves will not be used to support the exchange rate of the national currency.
Iranian intelligence officers arrested two human rights lawyers Payam Dorfeshan and Farrokh Forouzan Friday August 31.
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