Iran's Debate about Weekends Highlights Tehran's Ideological Constraints

UANI Senior Advisor Saeid Golkar writes: "Over the past year, Iranian politicians have increasingly pushed the idea of switching Iran’s weekend from its current Thursday-Friday model to a Friday-Saturday one instead. Iran’s economic sector and most of its population prefer to have Saturdays off, arguing that this would better align Iran’s economy with the rest of the world, where most countries observe Saturday-Sunday weekends and its neighboring countries observe Friday-Saturday weekends."