On Sunday, 29 Shahrivar, at a meeting of the Government-Private Sector Dialogue Council of Tehran Province, it was announced that hundreds of companies supplying essential goods have more than four billion euros in claims against the government; claims that, in part, have been left unresolved for months.

Mehdi Begi, a member of the editorial staff of Iran International, examines how the debt chain has spread across different sectors and the level of resilience of Iran’s credit-based economy in "Peyvast."