Inflation, officially 13 percent, is reckoned to be at least twice that figure. Today the government announced it is introducing a new 50,000 rial (about $5.50) bank note. On the rear of the note is the nuclear power symbol, a sign of defiance, though to the hard-pressed merchants the new note is just a further sign of the country’s inflationary woes.
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/05/78766.aspx
