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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 23. (AP/Michel Euler)


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Customers shop at a vegetable store in Tehran, Iran on January 6, 2012.
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Rouhani’s food subsidy scheme backfires

Rouhani’s food subsidy scheme backfires

Tehran, Asharq Al-Awsat—A new food subsidies scheme introduced by President Hassan Rouhani to ease the financial burden on ordinary Iranians buckling under the country’s crippling economic conditions has caused controversy in the Islamic Republic. Complaints about the...