In the 1980s when Iran's foreign currency reserves dried up, licensed exchange bureaux closed down and the black market was run by the street money-changers of Tehran's Ferdowsi Street.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Sunday for an end to street demonstrations after about 5, 000 people shuffled in silence down Tehran's Shariati Street to the Ghoba mosque.
This week the Tehran municipality changed the name of a street called after the assassin of Egypt's Anwar Sadat, the first Arab leader to make a formal peace with Israel.
In the early days of the Iranian revolution, Ahmadinejad was a street thug (and, according to some Americans taken hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, one of their tormentors) in the service of the radical Shiite Islamist, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.