Iran’s Big Crisis: The Price of Chicken

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Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supremeleader of the Islamic Republic of Iran has a lot on his mindthese days. Especially chicken.

The rising price of this food staple is the cause of suchanxiety among Iranian officials that last month, Iran’s policechief, Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, urged the country’s TV stationsnot to broadcast images of people eating the birds. He wasworried it could lead to social unrest.