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Neutral, dated analysis and explainers across Iran’s markets.
EducationalCurrency
What Are Secondary Sanctions; How Do OFAC and the FATF Work?
How secondary sanctions differ from primary sanctions, how OFAC's SDN List and general licenses work, and how the FATF places countries on its increased-monitoring or call-for-action lists: all as predictable calendar events that shape currency-market expectations.
Sahmino editorialAug 30, 202610 min read
EducationalCurrency
The Fed's Chain to the Toman: How One Decision in Washington Reaches Tehran's Free Dollar and Coin
This lesson builds the full chain: how the Fed's interest rate moves the Dollar Index, how the Dollar Index moves the global gold ounce, and how that ounce, together with Tehran's free market dollar rate, sets Iran's gold and coin prices. With a labelled hypothetical and dated, sourced real figures.
Sahmino editorialAug 14, 20268 min read
