New Delhi, May 11 -- Iran's economy, already weakened by decades of sanctions and mismanagement, is haemorrhaging jobs at an accelerating pace as companies across the country's industrial and technology sectors shed workers in the wake of the US-Israel-Iran war and a prolonged government-imposed internet shutdown.

Iran is experiencing its sharpest wave of mass unemployment in recent memory, with economists, labour leaders and business executives warning of a contraction that could displace millions of workers across manufacturing, technology and services. The convergence of wartime destruction, a port blockade and a sweeping internet shutdown has pushed companies that survived years of international sanctions to the brink of collapse.

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