{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"WBKollektion","title":"Moslem Ghomashlouyan: Contraband Commerce across the Iranian Border (EN)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/ca52db27\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1004,"description":"It’s a blazing hot afternoon in late 2021. Moslem Ghomashlouyan is standing in a crisply air-conditioned sports apparel store in an upscale mall, looking at rows upon rows of Nikes, Adidas, and New Balances. Nothing unusual – except for one detail: \nThe mall was in Northern Tehran – And Iran has been under strict US-led sanctions for decades.\nMartin Ritzmann sat down with the social anthropologist to learn more about the remarkable journey Western brand-name apparel undertake across the Iraqi-Iranian border.\nNOTE: This episode was recorded on 27 March, 2026 – 4 weeks after the onset of the 2026 Iran war.\nLinks:Moslem Ghomashlouyan's profile on UniBEFurther Reading:Erami, Narges, and Arang Keshavarzian. 2015. “When Ties Don’t Bind: Smuggling Effects, Bazaars and Regulatory Regimes in Postrevolutionary Iran.” Economy and Society 44 (1): 110–139. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2014.909986\nYıldız, Emrah. 2024a. “Guaranteed Contraband’: A Cultural Biography of Kaçak Tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian Bazaar.” Journal of Cultural Economy 17 (2): 178–196. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2024.2323691\nZinati, Peyman. 2024. “Escaping isn’t for everyone”: Kurdish smugglers’ navigational tactics at checkpoints in Iran. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)\nBozçalı, Fırat. 2025. Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.\nNew episodes of WBKollektion on the first monday of each month!","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/t24zmdLrg0J9Qc0-hBtr_CNfyJKOLV_hxARt8m_1pbQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hM2Ex/YjliNjEzYmMwZjZl/MzY4ZTIwODVkNzFk/NjdkYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}