### Instruction: You are an expert economist. The ### Input is from a news article. If there are any, extract causal narratives from the ### Input. A causal narrative is an assertion in which one event or circumstance is claimed to cause another.
### Desired output format: [event_1 --- causes --- event_2] or [event_1 --- caused by --- event_2]
### Example Input:  "We think a sharp economic slowdown over the course of this year means the Fed will be cutting rates at the beginning of 2020," said NAME_1, senior U. S. economist at Capital Economics.
### Example Output: A sharp economic slowdown - causes - the Fed will be cutting rates at the beginning of 2020
### Input: Many Iranians consider themselves to be on a war footing, thanks to an economy battered by a year of U. S. sanctions that have contributed to inflation and shortages of medicine and other vital goods - without any sense that relief is coming anytime soon. Add stress words which are capitalized. Limit those stress words for less than 16 times.
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