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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/01/wiran101.xml
Iran Curses Ahmadinejad over Petrol Rationing
[Sunday Telegraph-UK] Colin Freeman - The protests over fuel rationing, the most open sign of discontent with Ahmadinejad's rule since he took office in 2005, were accompanied by a stream of text-messaged jokes. "On the orders of President Ahmadinejad," read one, "those who are short of petrol can have a ride on the 17 million donkeys who voted for him." "I voted for Ahmadinejad because I thought he represented a new way of doing things," said Samid Jalali, a grocer whose shop is a minute's stroll from Ahmadinejad's house. "But I am not satisfied with the way things are going. Inflation is much worse now: a tin of cooking oil has gone from $6 to $9 in just three months." Inflation has soared to 40%. Ahmadinejad's critics predict that his downfall may lie in the discontent of his ordinary working-class constituents, rather than the reformist efforts of Teheran's educated, pro-Western middle class.