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It's Wednesday in the first week of October and several thousand

protesters have brought traffic in downtown Tehran to a standstill

and these are not just any protesters.

These are angry bazaries.

The wealthy merchants whose political support has been crucial for the

Iranian government.

Their problem, the abrupt collapse in the value of the Iranian currency, the real,

which suddenly dropped by more than 50% in a matter of days.

The price of basic goods like bread and milk shot up overnight

and the Iranian economy appeared to be at the edge of a cliff.

I'm Pune Gadousi and in this special program for the BBC World Service

I'll be looking at the roots of this crisis and asking whether there's

any way out of it.

I work for Persian TV, the BBC's Farsi language broadcasts

and we were inundated with angry callers.

I went to shopping the bazar and saw a large number of people

protesting.

The bazarists themselves are tired of the current situation.

They say foreign companies do not sell us their products.

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