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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120304230.html?hpid=artslot
Ahmadinejad's Plan to Curb Government Subsidies Threatens to Alienate Iranians
[Washington Post] Thomas Erdbrink - Gasoline is 36 cents a gallon because Iran's government spends half its national budget to subsidize many of life's necessities. Yet many of these subsidies may end within a couple of months. Many members of Iran's urban middle class fear that Ahmadinejad's new plan will ruin them.