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Iran's President Is Confronted by Scandal over Inflated Government Wages
(New York Times) Thomas Erdbrink - Less than a year before new elections, President Hassan Rouhani of Iran is confronting a major scandal involving inflated salaries for the managers and executives of state-run companies. Having cleaned house after supplanting the corruption-riddled administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and putting his own people at the top rungs of state-run enterprises, Mr. Rouhani finds himself vulnerable as the disclosures of inflated salaries multiply. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has harshly criticized the inflated salaries, which far exceed the legal cap of $2,353 a month for government employees. The disclosures first emerged in conservative news outlets that oppose the president.