Ali Mostofi - Iranian Astrologer and Current Affairs Commentator.
به زبان فارسی
PICTORY
LATEST MUSIC
SEARCH
Suitcase Economy
14-Feb-2008
So Goltab co-owner Mehrdad Shojaee gets on a plane and collects payments himself. He and his brother recently returned from a business trip to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, toting $40,000 from customers in his carry-on.
...
Majid Jalali, a carpet seller at Tehran's sprawling covered bazaar, now lets customers walk out of his shop with his handwoven wool and silk pieces -- worth between $100 and $800 apiece -- without any money changing hands. Foreigners can't wire money into his account anymore, he says. So he tells them to take the carpets and send the money to his sister in Canada. He's been stiffed twice so far. A bigger problem: European and Asian businessmen aren't coming by anymore.
//online.wsj.com/article/SB120286605982864009...
How much longer before the economy collapses. With all the revenues going to centrifuges and the like, the merchants will have to realise the hard way. Enough talk. Money talks and everyone will get the message. But why did the US and EU let the Seyyeds get away with it for so long, when they could have done all this a long time ago?
| Recently by alimostofi | Comments | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ayatollahs are building their new Shiite Kingdom | 4 | Dec 03, 2012 |
| Astrology of 2012 Galactic Alignment on 21st December 2012 or Shabe-Yalda. | - | Dec 03, 2012 |
| Asrrology of Sun in Azar or Sagittarius and Moon in Amordad or Leo 2012. | 2 | Dec 03, 2012 |
RECENT COMMENTS
IRANIANS OF THE DAY
| Person | About | Day |
|---|---|---|
| نسرین ستوده: زندانی روز | Dec 04 | |
| Saeed Malekpour: Prisoner of the day | Lawyer says death sentence suspended | Dec 03 |
| Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | Iterview with mother | Dec 02 |
| احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
| Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
| Nasrin Sotoudeh: Graffiti | In Barcelona | Nov 30 |
| گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
| Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
| محمد کلالی: یکی از حمله کنندگان به سفارت ایران در برلین | Nov 29 | |
| Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |
Abarmard: Ask a small
by alimostofi on Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:10 AM PSTAbarmard: Ask a small business man in Iran, which is better, to suffer with the Seyyeds, or suffer from the Seyyeds. At least to know that the Seyyed is also suffering, is a good thing. And they are suffering. They are having to create new proxies and new banks. They can run with the Iranian populations' money, but they cannot hide forever. They will be caught and tried for abusing the wealth of Iran, for their dogma.
Ali Mostofi
//www.alimostofi.com
Ali mostofi makes money standing in street corners
by -/\- (not verified) on Thu Feb 14, 2008 07:40 PM PST.
Phantom Islamist economy
by Anonymous, (not verified) on Thu Feb 14, 2008 03:35 PM PSTIslamist always try to make believe that the Islamist Republic has a functioning economy as the term is applied in most sane parts of the world. In fact Their Islamist Republic has a command economy which is crude oil export based, is mostly governmen or many subsidized Islamist foundations owned.
Too bad
by Abarmard on Thu Feb 14, 2008 03:17 PM PSTThat's why these western imposed sanctions are ruining Iranians lives rather than the government. It's hurting our farmers and little shop owners, small developers and so forth. The huge businesses and government based manufacturers and producers are not going to feel the pain.