The coin weight/composition and the rough scrap-metal arithmetic are broadly correct, but the video ignores feasibility, access, legal, and transaction-cost issues that make the “infinite money loop” misleading.
Claim-by-claim breakdown
Accurate (79% confidence): $1 converts to about 1,375,000 Iranian rials at the current exchange rate. Recent market sources place the U.S. dollar around 1.37 million Iranian rials, so the number is plausible as an approximate spot rate.
Misleading (72% confidence): You can directly exchange Iranian rials into physical 1-rial coins in that amount. Even if the currency conversion math works on paper, the claim omits availability and transaction constraints; the setup is not a guaranteed direct retail conversion path.
Accurate (98% confidence): An Iranian 1-rial coin weighs 1.75 grams and is made of 75% copper and 25% nickel. Numista lists the Iranian 1-rial coin as copper-nickel, 75% copper and 25% nickel, weight 1.75 g.
Accurate (99% confidence): 1,375,000 such coins would weigh about 2,406 kilograms total. 1,375,000 × 1.75 g = 2,406,250 g, which is 2,406.25 kg.
Accurate (99% confidence): That many coins would contain about 602 kg of nickel and 1,804 kg of copper. 25% of 2,406.25 kg is about 601.6 kg nickel and 75% is about 1,804.7 kg copper.
Misleading (74% confidence): Selling that metal at today's prices would bring about $33,956. Using mid-2026 commodity quotes, the scrap value is broadly in the mid-$30k range, but the cited number is only an approximation and ignores processing losses, fees, and bid/ask spreads.