Fuel rationing sparks Tehran riots
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Motorists set fire to petrol stations in Tehran today in an angry backlash against the Iranian government's decision to impose rationing.
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Iran's supreme leader on Saturday threw his weight behind a gasoline rationing scheme which sparked angry protests and left more than a dozen petrol stations burnt out in the world's fourth largest oil exporter.
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Iran's top security council has ordered local journalists not to report on problems caused by petrol rationing.
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Thirty-eight people died and 200 were  injured Monday when a faulty electrical heater started a blaze  in a Tehran mosque crowded with worshippers for a major Shi'ite  Muslim festival, Iranian state media reported.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept to power promising to bring oil revenues to every family but he now faces growing domestic discontent over newly imposed fuel rationing and skyrocketing prices.
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The United States protested formally to the Iranian government on Thursday over an incident in which Iranian speedboats confronted U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said.
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Angry Iranian motorists queued for gasoline for hours on Wednesday after the world's fourth-largest oil exporter imposed fuel rationing, sparking chaotic scenes and the torching of at least two pump stations.
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Four major power protest to UN nuclear chief Mohammed ElBaradei over remarks about Iran's nuclear programme.
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Angry Iranian motorists queued for gasoline on Wednesday hours after the world's fourth largest oil exporter imposed fuel rationing, sparking chaotic scenes and the torching of two pump stations in the capital.
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Iran steps up protests over award of knighthood to British author.
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Venezuela has agreed to sell gasoline to Iran, the South American county's energy minister said in comments published Tuesday, a week after the Islamic country imposed a fuel rationing program that has sparked violence.
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KARAJ, Iran  - Before Iran's 1979 Islamic  revolution, some of the world's finest cars cruised in Tehran  traffic, many of them the playthings of friends and close  associates of the Shah.
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Disciplinary action against  outspoken students and academics is soaring in Iran, reports say.
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The fuel was delivered to the Bushehr nuclear plant, the power station at the heart of an international dispute on Iranâs nuclear program.
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U.S. officials in Baghdad fear that a  fuel crisis, which has left Iraqi homes cold and dark and  drivers waiting days for petrol, may inflame unrest before next  month's election.
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Business & money: Mounting US crackdown on foreign companies doing business with Iran provoke opposition in Europe.
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Riot police fired teargas and beat a   journalist in central Khartoum on Wednesday as opposition   parties and supporters gathered to demonstrate against a recent   rise in petrol and sugar prices, witnesses said.