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Iran Reports 50% Inflation, 2 Million Job Losses After US Strait of Hormuz Blockade
Iran's official annual inflation has reached 50% following a ceasefire, with the rial at a record low and widespread job losses. The US naval blockade continues to halt oil exports and imports. Reconstruction costs near $270 billion as the economy faces severe strain.
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Iran's official annual inflation has surged to 50% according to central bank figures released shortly after the ceasefire, while the year-on-year rate reached as high as 67% through mid-April. 8 million to the dollar, and roughly two million workers in Iran have lost their jobs. The US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz continues to throttle Iran's oil exports and critical imports.
Reconstruction costs from bombed infrastructure in Iran are estimated near $270 billion, close to the country's annual GDP of roughly $341 billion last year. 85 million barrels per day as recently as March, have been reduced to a near standstill. Shipping analysts at Kpler found no confirmed evidence of cargoes successfully breaching the US blockade to reach buyers in China or elsewhere.
Iran initially tried to use the Strait of Hormuz as leverage by disrupting traffic, but the US responded with a naval blockade that has effectively severed the Islamic Republic’s economic lifeline. Before the war, the Strait of Hormuz carried the vast majority of Iran’s oil revenue and imports ranging from food and medicine to industrial components.
Tehran has activated emergency bypass routes including rail and road connections through Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, Caspian Sea ports supplied by Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, and new transit corridors via Pakistan.
09) in a single week in Tehran. A popular Peugeot 207 has climbed from 18 billion rials to 25 billion rials since the conflict began. Officials in Iran are preparing to authorize a 40 percent increase in government-mandated cement prices.
60 a pound, in a country where the minimum wage is around $130 a month. The annual inflation rate in Iran reached 67% in the month through mid-April from the same period a year earlier, according to Iran’s central bank. Business consultant Siamak Ghassemi publicly advised Iranians that anything short of a near-doubling of wages would fail to offset the cost-of-living explosion.
