Iran’s theocratic regime may be facing even greater economic challenges than previously reported—perhaps even including a shortage of contemporary metaphors. Bloomberg reports:Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed defiance of the U.S. with a side order of American pop culture, invoking the cat-and-mouse adventures of Tom and Jerry. “The U.S. has tried various political, economic, military and propaganda undertakings to hit the Islamic Republic” throughout its four decades, the nation’s top religious leader told a gathering of officials on Wednesday. But “all these plots failed. Like the famous cat...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 24, 2018 20:37 UTC