Iran's Survival Economy — Families Sell Hair as Inflation Hits 88 Percent
War desks stay on missiles; ILNA's classifieds — hair, empty bottles, rented laptops — are the household file X already understood.
Nora Whitfield
Bureau: Chicago
Remembering Pioneer Kay Granger
Wires write firsts. The last chapter is an aging Congress that kept a chair warm after the work had stopped.
ILNA Names a Survival Economy
X treats ILNA's phrase as viral hardship porn; Mint and Iran International treat a semi-official agency documenting collapse as the news.
Empty Perfume Bottles Listed for Cash
X mocks empty-bottle ads as absurdity; ILNA's classifieds beat, via Mint, treats the listing as a completed household liquidation.
Households Rent Instead of Own
X reads Iran's rental surge as hustle culture; ILNA, via Mint, says the consumption pattern has flipped from owning to borrowing cash and tools.