The government has been left increasingly beleaguered by the outcry against the measures.
While prices have remained relatively stable, and Tehran's treasury has been squeezed, the United States is left increasingly vulnerable to a region in turmoil.
Since then, the city has been left increasingly to its own devices – abandoned by politicians, planners, developers and businesses, by all, in fact, but the black urban poor.
The Conservative Party, meanwhile, appears to be left increasingly with just the support of their core voter base, roughly 30% of the population.
Since the takeover of Anbar by militant forces in January 2014, the Albu Nimr tribe, along with other tribes affiliated with the Iraqi government, have been left increasingly vulnerable from reprisal attacks.
By the time you get to the second or third day, in theory, no serotonin is left and the low reserves that were left are increasingly used up, so you reach a kind of minimum level while the body is still rebuilding the enzyme that has been inactivated by the MDMA.
What sidewalks were left have become increasingly cluttered with traffic signs, trash cans and newspaper boxes.
The aid budget had been slashed, more was being directed through international organisations, and what was left was increasingly being abused by commercial interests.
Without the UN, we would be left with increasingly brittle "state-on-state" relationships, with little remaining to mediate, negotiate or resolve inter-state crises when they arise.
