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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...
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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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Iran’s outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in mid-June gives a speech during a ceremony at Tehran’s Golestan Palace celebrating its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List on July 7, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE)


Ahmadinejad’s Gift to Rouhani

Ahmadinejad’s Gift to Rouhani

Iran’s economy is big news. Badly hit by oil and banking sanctions, it is the main reason the Iranians are at the negotiating table in Geneva after almost ten years of diplomatic stonewalling. The state of the Iranian economy has even become shorthand for explaining...
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Iranian President Hasan Rouhani speaks in his first press conference since taking office, at the presidency compound in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)