New Year a Dud as Iran Nuclear Optimism Fails to Tip Scales

Fishmonger Shahin Anbarani’s counter was covered with bright-eyed Caspian kutum and spotted river trout, staples of the Persian New Year feast.

With few customers to serve, Anbarani spent much of what’s traditionally the busiest period of the year, when Iranians mark the beginning of spring, staring at a television fixed into a top corner of his shop in Tehran.