0530 GMT: After the flutter around the two-day visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Iranian politics has fallen back into a lull this morning. Press TV has only one Iran update in the last 13 hours. State news outlet IRNA prefers to look at the Land Day protests across the world in support of Palestinian calls for t erritory and rights, while Fars chooses the speech of Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah --- parallelling this week's statement of the Supreme Leader --- on the Syrian crisis.
Amidst the quiet, whether from a lack of events or an agreement to let tensions lie, there is one innovative ripple. Alef, the website linked to MP Ahmad Tavakoli, uses a supposed historical review to slap at the Government. Its article on the "Global Value of Iran's Money from 300 Years Ago to Today" closes with its intended message: amidst "the most rapid fall in the national currency", the Central Bank "has the duty to preserve the value of money".
The Iranian Rial is now 19000:1 vs. the US dollar on the open market, a fall of almost 50% from its value last September.
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