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...newsisdanville Support for this podcast and the following message come from e-verify focused on supporting the legal hiring and employment eligibility their fixation process for employers. Let's go higher. Get started at either fi dot gov slash go. The economy of Iran is struggling US sanctions on Iranian oil, banking, and other sectors have tightened NPR's. Peter Kenyon reports that Iranians who are struggling to get by blame the Trump administration, but also their government and even themselves thirty year old has moved to Tehran to work for an online recruitment agency matching job seekers with companies looking for help she agreed to an interview via Skype if her family named isn't used so she can speak freely. The first thing she noticed was a sharp drop in demand from the employers side. Suddenly, it seemed hardly anyone was hiring candidates. Don't meeting on the applicant side demand. Kept going up every day. More and more people with strong qualifications looking for jobs. Then one day the. Agency closed or department and on us. Join those unemployed people she's been trying to help. She was forced to move back in with her parents and felt lucky to find another job with lower pay. But she hopes more job security. The sanctions are backed because President Trump pulled out of the twenty fifteen Iran nuclear deal and reimposed them in a bid to get Tehran to negotiate a tougher agreement. L no says the sanctions are a big part of the problem. But our own government is also partly responsible at the end of the day on uh says it's no use blaming officials verified, AMA hustle beyond all governments. I consider the Iranian people responsible. We don't strongly demand our rights if we held our politicians more accountable. We'd have better conditions now another Iranian reached via Skype Nema had a job that included inspecting imported goods household appliances automotive parts or machinery, he thinks back to an earlier round of sanctions several years ago and says at that time he doesn't remember imports being hit so hard. Hello. Whereas now, the imports have decreased drastically to the extent that in the past nine months barely had the same amount of work that he used to get in one month. So I would say there's been a ninety percent decline in the import of these products Nima says food, clothing and housing all costs more. And of course, there are shortages the government promised economic improvements, but Nima says there's no relief being felt on the street. Elian sorry, professor of Iranian history at the university of Saint Andrews in Scotland says as the sanctions bite efforts by the European Union to maintain the terms of the nuclear deal and keep trade going have bugged down in part, that's due to issues on the European side. But on sorry says it's also because Tehran is wary of complying with western standards on things like money laundering and cutting off funding for militant groups, he says a good example would be how the west views the Iran backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon has is defined as a terrorist organization in the American judo will clearly oppose any money. That's being transferred to vary. Scripts in Palestine has Lebanon's owns I will. So he runs very very opposed funding. All these shady groups in the Middle East will then come to line if they actually hit. These Dracula to your strict, meanwhile, public protests that began in late twenty seventeen continue Nima the customs expert says he hasn't joined the street protests, and he knows anti around hawks in the west would love to see the demonstrations grow. But when asked how long he can continue in these conditions. He sounds resigned about steam by already shut down my business closed in August. How long can I stand it like everyone else? It depends on how much money is in my Bank account when that's finished. I'll join the ones protesting in the St. Peter Kenyon. NPR news is danville....

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