Rez, resurrected 🇪🇸

Iran.

@hildacelik Teşekkür ederim 🙏🏻😄 Keşke oraya gelebilsem. İstanbul’u çok özlüyorum. Artık hiçbir yerde siyasi haber okumuyorum. O yüzden her yerde daha huzurluyum! ☺️😇

@RezvaniJr Buyrunnn😄

"İyi dostlar, iyi kitaplar, bir de huzurlu bir vicdan: İşte ideal hayat." M. Twain

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan @TheUrgeToWander AND the same USSR collapse caused economic crisis in my family (dad's employer had 80% exposure to USSR) which was the reason they looked for alternative schooling options in the first place! See the link? 😅

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan @TheUrgeToWander IN. Here's the funny part: IN's 80s economic woes were triggered by IR revolution & the 1991 collapse of USSR partially led to the balance of payments crisis in IN - both made schooling in IN dirt cheap when paying in £ —major reason for my fam choosing IN!

@RezvaniJr @s_oworld @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan @TheUrgeToWander

@hildacelik Şahaaane! 👏🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻😅

@RezvaniJr Gelin gelin 😊Hem de kaçak çay var😄😄😄

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan @TheUrgeToWander Exactly! Btw, I was literally there in the mid 90s... So naturally have a good understanding of that periods economic drama.

@RezvaniJr @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan @TheUrgeToWander Ah that. It’s usually the non cult personality non charismatic leaders who do the job more efficiently:)

@Pupulmimi @s_oworld @zarafshan @PunjabiRooh Since the Iran War there's a total love fest going on between Iran & Irystan on FB and IG! That reply to me in Iron (Cyrillic): "come, you'll be understood without a translator" (alluding to Iron & Persian being sister languages). ☺️

@Pupulmimi @s_oworld @zarafshan @PunjabiRooh Jodie Foster is looking so sad with her cane. Somebody should do something impressive to cheer her up! Anyone get the joke? 😉

This lull is just an excuse for a major attack looks like @RezvaniJr @s_oworld @zarafshan @PunjabiRooh

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan @TheUrgeToWander Context: IN was in the middle of the early 1990s balance of payments crisis.

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan @TheUrgeToWander Russia. The clever IN prime minister Rao had persuaded Boris Yeltsin (at their Moscow summit) to agree to pay off the entire debt via goods exports (like tea, tobacco, textiles, etc., ) to Russia.

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan @TheUrgeToWander Don't know if IN millennials even know this; India's regarded by economic historians as one of the few global nations to completely honor & fully pay off its USSR-era debt obligations to despite 1978 Indo-USSR Trade Protocol pegged the exchange rate artificially to favor Rouble!

@Pupulmimi @RezvaniJr @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan @TheUrgeToWander maga daddy won’t let us buy oil and we are too weak to do much about it 😬

@Pupulmimi @TheUrgeToWander @s_oworld @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan Unfortunately, 100% true!

@RezvaniJr @TheUrgeToWander @s_oworld @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan The last man standing in Europe.

@TheUrgeToWander @Pupulmimi @s_oworld @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan And

@RezvaniJr @Pupulmimi @s_oworld @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan Exactly. At least Iran is standing to him.

MyArtPage.Spring in the Mountains. This is Spring in Northern New England. The artist spends time hiking in the mountains. Oil on hardboard by Frank Wilson.

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @zarafshan @PunjabiRooh 🎯 😆

@RezvaniJr @Pupulmimi @zarafshan @PunjabiRooh Oh😆☺️ time to impress her was about three months ago! 🥹

Todavía estoy esperando a que la derecha se solidarice con Lamine Yamal, que por ondear la bandera de Palestina ha sido criticado por el Gobierno de Netanyahu. Todo nuestro respaldo a él y al pueblo palestino. Y todo nuestro rechazo a la violación de derechos humanos.

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan Yes! The Iranian revolution disrupted 7% of the world's oil output. Now it's 11.5% per IEA! In other words it's twice as bad as 1979 and the worst ever = we haven't felt the shock yet.

@RezvaniJr @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan We can’t catch a break 🥹🥹 making me really sad for the future

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan Countries in South America and Africa were economically devastated leading to so much political upheaval. Ironically, now as much as then, the country that can best weather this disaster is Iran! 🤷🏻‍♂️

@s_oworld @Pupulmimi @PunjabiRooh @zarafshan In India, inflation went from 3% in 1978 to 20% in 1979/80, suffered severe diesel & fertilizer crisis (that's coming up again) and set the stage for IMF bailout and forced (and good) economic liberalisation in 1991. 80s were Indias "lost decade" and it began in Tehran.