Lots More on the Protests and Financial Crisis in Iran
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
One of the extraordinary elements of the civil unrest taking place in Iran is that it's almost impossible to know what's going on. There's a virtually complete news blackout, in part because of the government shutting down the internet. What this means in practice right now is that someone on the outside can't even know for sure whether the Iranian stock market has been trading lately, or whether it's been halted. And then of course there are bigger questions about the scale of the civil unrest and the government's response to it. On this episode of Lots More, we check in with recurring guest Maciej Wojtal, the founder and CIO of Amtelon Capital, one of the few international firms to have direct exposure to Iranian stocks. We talk about what he's been able to ascertain about the protests, why they're taking place, Iran's ongoing financial crisis, and why this round of civil unrest is different from before.
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| 0:22.4 | Joe, do you like Persian food? |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, oh yeah, definitely. |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah, I make, I'm very proud of this, if I say so myself, |
| 0:31.0 | a mean gourmet sapsi. |
| 0:33.4 | I actually don't know if I'm pronouncing it wrong, |
| 0:35.5 | but supposedly it's the Iranian national dish. |
| 0:39.0 | And it's a sort of like beef stew with spinach and a bunch of different herbs in it. |
| 0:44.3 | So it's really green. |
| 0:45.8 | And then with kidney beans, it's delicious. |
| 0:48.7 | And the thing I like about it is you can make it and then store it, freeze it, and it actually gets better over the next week or so. |
| 0:55.7 | This is my idea for a restaurant, which is just like make food and then put it in the fridge |
| 1:01.5 | for overnight and then serve it cold. Because I think like every dish. I would be there. Every dish |
| 1:06.1 | is better like after a night in the fridge. Somehow like all the flavors come out. I was like, |
| 1:09.7 | why don't we just make this to the default eating? |
| 1:14.1 | I did a dead list. |
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