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Rial File Stays Dormant

TL;DR

This paper has been printing the rial file as dormant; Monday has no new print.

MSM Perspective

Monday has no new rial fix in fetched copy.

X Perspective

War feeds treat silence as a collapsed currency.

This paper has been printing the Iranian rial file as dormant through the catch-up week. Monday has no new print in fetched copy. Dormant is not collapsed in a number this desk can certify. Salalah's delay is not a rial fix.

Print dormant. Do not print a new rate. Leave a named print to the edition that owns a named print. No Monday rial bulletin is in the stack.

No Monday rial bulletin is in Tehran copy, so dormant remains the file and Salalah is not a currency print.
A dormant rial file is still dormant. Monday recap that treats Salalah as a currency crash is a feed, not a print.
No exchange-rate bulletin is in Monday's Tehran stack. Al Jazeera's Saturday file had Pezeshkian calling for unity as the currency slid; Monday adds no print to that slide.
Currency slides in wartime economies surface as parallel-market whispers long before official prints. Tehran's official and street rates diverged long ago. Monday's silence covers both rates and certifies neither.

Parallel-market whispers still precede official prints. Tehran's two rates diverged long ago. Monday adds no bulletin to either.

No new rial figure left Tehran on Monday. Whispers at the bazaar are not a certified print. The president's Saturday unity line still describes a slide, not a rescue. Hormuz talks delayed in Salalah belong on the lead, not on this board.
Bazaar whispers are not a certified print. Salalah's delay belongs on the lead. Monday left Tehran without a new print.

Bazaar whispers are not a certified print. Salalah's delay belongs on the lead. Monday left Tehran without a new print.

-- KATYA VOLKOV, Moscow

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