{"id":39939,"date":"2026-01-01T21:53:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39939"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:53:05","slug":"how-far-will-the-latest-protests-go-in-iran-business-and-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39939","title":{"rendered":"How far will the latest protests go in Iran? | Business and Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people in Iran have been protesting as a dire economic crisis takes a heavy toll on their daily livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>From a sharp fall in the currency\u2019s value to a steep rise in inflation, Iran\u2019s economy has reached what many describe as a breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the government has adopted a different approach as protests continue, calling for a dialogue mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>But as the country reels from longstanding sanctions, what does the leadership have to offer?<\/p>\n<p>And what would the consequences be if the protests escalate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> James Bays<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ali Akbar Dareini \u2013 Researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies<\/p>\n<p>Marzie Khalilian \u2013 Political analyst and academic researcher<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Zunes \u2013 Professor of politics and founding chair of Middle Eastern studies at the University of San Francisco<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 1 Jan 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">1 Jan 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people in Iran have been protesting as a dire economic crisis takes a heavy toll on their daily livelihood. From a sharp fall in the currency\u2019s value to a steep rise in inflation, Iran\u2019s economy has reached what many describe as a breaking point. This time, the government has adopted a different approach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[303,1404,84,1193,494],"class_list":{"0":"post-39939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-latest","12":"tag-protests"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}