Iran’s currency has dropped to ⁠a record ‍1,500,000 rials to ‍the US ⁠dollar, according to several Iranian ​currency ‌tracking websites, weeks after protests ‌sparked by ‌the ⁠rial’s dwindling value rocked ‌the country.

Exchange shops on Tuesday offered the record-low rial-to-dollar rate in Tehran, deepening the economic hardship for large swaths of the Iranian populace suffering from decades of extensive economic mismanagement and international sanctions.

Iran’s newly appointed ‍Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said that “the foreign exchange market is following its natural course.”