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From Radio Free Europe:

Iranian Traders Sentenced To Death For 'Disrupting Economy'

October 23, 2018 02:27 GMT 

 

Iranian in addition to U.S.A. banknotes on display at a currency telephone substitution store inwards downtown Tehran. (file photo)

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld dice sentences given to 2 fiscal traders convicted of illegal currency trading in addition to "disrupting the economy."

Iranian authorities on Oct 22 identified the 2 men equally Vahid Mazloumin in addition to Mohammad Esmail Ghasemi, whom local media dubbed the "Sultan of Coins" later on he was arrested in addition to constitute hoarding 2 tons of gilded coins that he allegedly used to manipulate the Iranian currency.

Many Iranians convey stocked upwards on gilded coins in addition to other condom haven investments equally the rial has plummeted this twelvemonth to tape lows against the U.S.A. dollar.

While almost Wall Street analysts attribute the currency's autumn to a greater extent than ofttimes than non to the pressure level from U.S.A. sanctions, which Washington started reimposing inwards August, the regime has responded to the economical crisis past times blaming local currency traders for the rial's autumn in addition to setting upwards exceptional courts to seek them for alleged working capital missive of the alphabet crimes.

Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi said the 2 currency traders sentenced to dice were convicted of "spreading corruption on earth," a term used for crimes punishable past times dice inwards the Islamic Republic....MORE