Despite what everyone thought they knew, the Iranian Rial is the only world currency worth the paper it’s printed on.. and then some! At least according this Op-Ed from Press TV, which argues that the Rial is a unit of wealth, while the US dollar is simply a unit of debt.
For those keeping score, it currently takes just under 11,000 units of Iranian ‘wealth’ to equal a single unit of American ‘debt.’
An American born journalist living in Iran. Covering Iran for multiple media outlets since 2001. You may read my stories in Time, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and more. 
