
Better served than most sanctioned markets. Three strands: how the bazaar works as a credit and distribution network, a former finance minister's surveys of the state economy, and insider accounts of the sanctions machinery itself, which is what actually prices Iranian risk.
Political history that explains who controls which parts of the economy.
Insider account of the financial-warfare machinery that isolates Iranian banks.
Insider account by the US official who designed the Iran sanctions programme.
The earlier survey: nationalisation, war financing and the bonyad economy.
How informal credit, trust networks and trade finance work when the banking system does not.
Former finance minister on subsidies, privatisation and the rial.
The standard survey: bonyads, IRGC commercial holdings, subsidies and sanctions.