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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-19T06:35:42.000Z",
  "site": "https://irannewsupdate.com",
  "tags": [
    "Economy",
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    "Iran News Digest",
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  "textContent": "The country’s deepening hardship reflects long-standing structural failures, now intensified but not caused by recent conflict. When Iran’s regime president Masoud Pezeshkian addressed Iran’s Central Bank on April 17, he pointed to “wartime conditions” as a primary driver of the country’s worsening economic situation, while asserting that stability in key monetary and currency markets had […]\n\nThe post Iran’s Economic Breakdown Cannot Be Explained Away by War appeared first on Iran News Update.",
  "title": "Iran’s Economic Breakdown Cannot Be Explained Away by War"
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