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Navid Kalhor is an expert on Iran’s financial markets and has worked as a trader and analyst at the Iran Mercantile Exchange and the Tehran Stock Exchange.
![Taxis line up to pick up customers at a taxi station in the Iranian capital Tehran on July 3, 2019. - The Iranian economy is struggling in part because of the crippling US sanctions targeting Iran's oil sales, banking transactions and major industries like steel and petrochemicals. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/12/GettyImages-1153411379%20%281%29.jpg/GettyImages-1153411379%20%281%29.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=ISGvmMFG)
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![Iranian carpet vendors wait for costumers in the capital Tehran's Grand Bazaar on September 30, 2020. - According to Iranian vendors, carpets exports have decreased due to US-imposed sanctions. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/10/GettyImages-1228801064.jpg/GettyImages-1228801064.jpg?h=4bd20877&itok=L_QCmMqH)
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![Iranian dealers monitor the stock market at the stock exchange in the capital Tehran on May 8, 2018. - Renewed nuclear sanctions would certainly cause severe problems for Iran's economy, but much of the damage has already been done by the uncertainty created by the US and myriad home-grown problems. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/04/GettyImages-955930592.jpg/GettyImages-955930592.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=I9TE6ahI)
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![Stock market employees work at Tehran's Stock Exchange, Iran, January 17, 2016. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/TIMAATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF20000097701](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/08/RTX22Q7S.jpg/RTX22Q7S.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=7A7ZyFLv)
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![EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.
A woman looks at exchange rates by the window of a currency exchange shop in Tehran's business district January 7, 2012. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1E8171GYK01](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/06/RTR2VZCO.jpg/RTR2VZCO.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=Ec-9_fS3)
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