You Could Be a Billionaire In This Country Today

The World’s Weakest Currency

Grant Piper
4 min readNov 30, 2022

Many people dream about being a billionaire. The idea of never having to worry about money is appealing. Millions of Americans play the lottery every year, especially when the jackpots are the highest, hoping to strike it big. But you do not need to be the founder of Microsoft or hit the winning numbers to become a billionaire. You can be a billionaire today, right now, if you transfer all of your money into Iranian rials (IRR).

The Iranian rial is the world’s weakest currency. Despite attempts to condense the currency into a new denomination (tomans), the currency continues to be nearly valueless in the international economy. That means that your American dollars (or British pounds or Euros) can buy an obscene amount of rials on the open market.

The exchange rate for dollars to rials is roughly 1:42000. The average median household income in the United States is roughly $70,000. That means that the average American couple could turn their yearly income into 2.9 billion rials.

With a few years of active money management, your fortune could easily be worth multiple billions of Iranian rials.

In order to officially become a billionaire in Iran, you would have to pony up $23,668 based on current exchange rates. That…

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Grant Piper

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.