Iran offers people £5 a month to stop protests over economic crisis

Footage shows protesters attacking a government building in Fasa, in southern Iran, on December 31 (Picture: Getty)

Iran’s government appears to think that it can solve its worst economic crisis since the 1979 revolution – and the resulting protests – with £5 a month.

Most of the country’s 90 million citizens will be given coupons, aimed at offsetting the burden caused by the elimination of a heavily subsidized exchange rate used to import essential goods.

Government spokesperson...