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Iran prepares for elections amid sanctions

2013-03-15 22 Dailymotion

Khorasan, a downtown, working class suburb in Tehran, is expected to play a big role in deciding the outcome of Iran's presidential elections.<br /><br />This neighbourhood, like others, has felt the impact of the sanctions. In the last year, some shopkeepers reported their income has fallen by half.<br /><br />This happened as the Iranian rial plunged in value against the dollar and inflation soared.<br /><br />Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cannot run again, so some are hoping that means change, and economic change for the better.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Soraya Lennie reports from Tehran.

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