Thursday
Jan032013
Iran Live Coverage: A Collapsing Economy?
Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 9:19See also Wednesday's Iran Live Coverage: Ahmadinejad v. Everyone Else
1710 GMT: Economy Watch. A new report by the Iranian Chamber of Commerce indicates that 5931 industrial units --- 67% of those surveyed --- have been shut.
1440 GMT: Rafsanjani Watch. Ebrahim Raissi, the Deputy Iran Prosecutor General, has promised that indictments in the case of Mehdi Hashemi, the son of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, will be issued soon.
Hashemi, accused of financial and electoral fraud by his critics, was detained in September on his return from three years in exile in Britain. He was released on bail last month.