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Access to the people, the streets of tehran. above ground, a bustling city of 12 million. [ horn honking ] below ground, we discover a gleaming subway system, far quieter and cleaner than the famous subways of new york city. and there was something else very different. this says women only here. the back of the train reserved for women. beyond the trains, the traffic, everywhere you look there's something else on the move, the prices. skyrocketing inflation. their currency losing 80% of its value in just the last year. u.s.-led sanctions tying an economic noose around iran. >> i think it's -- ...

'79, you can see the gates are still here, still closed decades later. and behind us here what used to be the seal. you can still faintly make out "united states of america" here. still today, the walls here painted with anti-american murals, the guard stations empty. many here hoping for an end to the sanctions and to the nuclear standoff. david muir, abc news, tehran. >> and we've been talking so much about the nuclear threat posed by iran. but there is some reluctance by the administration to send troops in there, hoping economic sanction also cripple the economy enough and that perhaps is ...

Access to the people, the streets of tehran. above ground, a bustling city of 12 million. [ horn honking ] below ground, we discover a gleaming subway system, far quieter and cleaner than the subways of new york city. and there was something else very different. this says women only here. the back of the train reserved for women. beyond the trains, the traffic, everywhere you look there's something else on the move, the prices. skyrocketing inflation. their currency losing 80% of its value in just the last year. u.s.-led sanctions tying an economic noose around iran. >> i think it hurts the pe...

Tehran peaked. did we miss an opportunity? can sanctions work alone, and what does it mean to you when you hear, um, defense secretary leon panetta say all options on the table? >> well, all options on the table if we can use those options. well, there are some options that we had not just on the table, in the battlefields, and we wasted the opportunity. you just mentioned it. june of 2009, 1.5 million iranians -- these are not american or europeans or arabs, these are iranians -- were marching in downtown tehran about to shake off the foundation of that regime, and we didn't support them. it'...

>> i think the evidence has been growing. and that's what i tried to look at in this article. we have already had over a period of many months now, going back to last summer and before, a lot of tit for tat events. a number of iranian nuclear scientists have been mysteriously killed, assassinated, even in downtown tehran, by men on motorcycles. we have seen the iranian retaliations, which may include this embassy attack against the british, just last week. there was a bomb in bahrain that exploded right near the british embassy. the british, by the way, have been cited along with the israelis ...