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Iran is used to coping with adversity, but this is something else

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By James Drummond 
| Arabian Gulf Business Insight (AGBI)
Pity Abdolnaser Hemmati, the governor of the central bank of Iran. The technocrat only took office in December, after the government found a scapegoat in his predecessor when it did away with a preferential exchange rate. That decision triggered widespread rioting. Two months later the war broke out. Now Hemmati must cope with annualised inflation that hit 58 percent in May, compared to 53 percent the previous month.
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Iran is used to coping with adversity, but this is something else

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Iraq urgently needs to find ways of getting its oil to market

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By James Drummond 
| Arabian Gulf Business Insight (AGBI)
Iraq is planning to triple crude oil export volumes via pipeline, according to the prime minister’s office. It needs to do that quickly – and do more. The target set out this week – 770,000 barrels per day – is, after all, only about a fifth of the 3.6 million bpd exported before the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz. In April, the outgoing cabinet approved $1.5 billion to construct a long-delayed pipeline from Basra to Haditha, from where it is planned to extend to Turkey, Syria and Jordan.
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