This week, it proclaimed, “The main index of the Tehran Stock Exchange, TEPIX, has soared to a new high, despite the US-led sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran.” That very niftily put a political cast on a financial story. There was only one problem. The TEPIX closed at 24,357 Sunday. That was nowhere near a new high. In fact, it was 10.1 percent below the record high of 27,098 set back on September 12. The TEPIX has been sliding since then. How did PressTV get such a basic fact totally backward?