Shops and markets in central Tehran, usually teeming with customers ahead of the Persian New Year, now barely see any buyers, ...

"Carter had a bad character," said Hassan Taherifar who works at a Tehran bazaar outside the former US embassy in Tehran, known locally as the "Den of Spies".

Walking through the labyrinth of Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, visitors are encircled with a sensory overload; the scent of spices, the rhythmic calls of traders, and the clatter of commerce. Within this ...