The Iranian government is trying to reduce expensive imports on items that they can dig without. But if tens of shipping containers worth of pianos and presumably lots of other luxury or unnecessary items are getting across the border, this doesn't sound like the most efficient way to deal with the problems that Iran has. Edmund: The market doesn't go away just because the government wills it to. There are still people in Iran who want to play the piano,. Who want expensively clothes, who want new iPhones and things like this.