By bne IntelIiNews The damage done to Iran’s digital economy by the authorities’ throttling and blacking out of the internet and social media in the face of the deadly unrest that has swept the country in the past two weeks is immense. That’s the worry of Mehdi Bashartadeh, an economic researcher, who spoke with ISNA about how Iranian businesses are particularly hamstrung by the authorities’ creation of what traders are describing as a social media “desert”. ‘The cutting off of access to Instagram [for instance] has put more than 400,000 businesses at risk of annihilation and has caused seriou…