The expected implementation of last year’s nuclear agreement will see Iran transformed as it reconnects to the global economy. In the capital,businesses hit by years of sanctions are cautiously optimisticTehran’s historic district of Tajrish, a former village on the foothills of the Alborz mountain, and is now one of the capital’s busiest and vibrant neighbourhoods,domestic to luxury shopping centres selling Mont Blanc pens and Versace clothes, albeit from unofficial boutiques. The Iranian capital, and particularly this area,does not contain the look of a city functioning under one of the world’s most stringent sanction regimes: businesses are running as normal and trade bans contain not stopped imports of products from companies such as Apple, Bosch or LG. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com