During Iran\u2019s Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising, questions around Iran\u2019s economy became hotly contested. Join us as economics experts Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Esfandyar Batmanghelidj take us on a deep dive into understanding Iran\u2019s economy as it intersects with domestic and foreign politics, US-imposed sanctions, and the country\u2019s women and youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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During Iran\u2019s Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising, questions around Iran\u2019s economy became hotly contested. Join us as economics experts Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Esfandyar Batmanghelidj take us on a deep dive into understanding Iran\u2019s economy as it intersects with domestic and foreign politics, US-imposed sanctions, and the country\u2019s women and youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2025\/11\/2023_08-18_Woman-Life-Freedom_Ep-6_Final_Final_Final.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"1:39:43","filesize":"91.29M","filesize_raw":"95728316","date_recorded":"2023-08-25 22:29:00","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"categories":[],"series":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-16","1":"podcast","2":"type-podcast","3":"status-publish","5":"series-woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast","6":"entry"},"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":79,"post_author":"10","post_date":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_date_gmt":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_content":"\n
Nahid Siamdoust has been researching and reporting about Iran as an academic and journalist for over twenty years. She is currently an assistant professor of media and Middle East studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, was the inaugural Yarshater Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, and a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. Nahid is the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran (Stanford, 2017). Previously, she was an Iran correspondent for Time Magazine and a Middle East based correspondent for Al Jazeera International. Her recent commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, New Lines Magazine, Foreign Policy, BBC, and NPR.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Nahid Siamdoust","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"nahid-siamdoust","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_modified_gmt":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=79","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"guests":[{"ID":57,"post_author":"10","post_date":"2025-11-21 15:26:42","post_date_gmt":"2025-11-21 15:26:42","post_content":"\n
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University and has served on the faculties of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and Virginia Tech, where he is currently Professor of Economics.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Djavad Salehi-Isfahani","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"djavad-salehi-isfahani","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-11-21 15:26:42","post_modified_gmt":"2025-11-21 15:26:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=57","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":60,"post_author":"10","post_date":"2025-11-21 15:28:00","post_date_gmt":"2025-11-21 15:28:00","post_content":"\n
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is the founder and CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, a London-based think tank focused on economic diplomacy, economic development, and economic justice in the Middle East and Central Asia.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Esfandyar Batmanghelidj","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"esfandyar-batmanghelidj","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-11-21 15:28:01","post_modified_gmt":"2025-11-21 15:28:01","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=60","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"transcript":""},"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2025\/11\/WLF_Draft-02LOGOstacked.png","download_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/podcast-download\/16\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-irans-economy-with-djavad-salehi-isfahani-and-esfandyar-batmanghelidj.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/podcast-player\/16\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-irans-economy-with-djavad-salehi-isfahani-and-esfandyar-batmanghelidj.mp3","audio_player":"