Rationing Fuels Discontent In Iran
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TEHRAN, June 30 -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who swept to power promising that every family would benefit from the nation's oil wealth, now faces growing domestic discontent over newly imposed fuel rationing and skyrocketing consumer prices.
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Business & money: Mounting US crackdown on foreign companies doing business with Iran provoke opposition in Europe.
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Iran hits out at UN calls for it to stop uranium enrichment after a report said it had missed a deadline to do so.
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Angry drivers set fire to at least two gas stations overnight in Tehran after the government announced that gasoline rationing would begin.
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Two announcements Sunday appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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Iran on Saturday reiterated its call for  OPEC to pull supply back down to official quota levels and  mapped out a way to fund a long-promised production hike, a  newspaper reported.
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TEHRAN, Iran  - As Iran hurtles toward a confrontation with the United States over its nuclear program, the nation's economy remains a dysfunctional wreck. Neither wholly free nor entirely socialist, the Iranian market is a ramshackle hybrid buttressed by lofty oil prices.
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Iran steps up protests over award of knighthood to British author.
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Iran's supreme leader Ali Khameni calls on the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to curb surging prices.
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His speeches cause outrage in the West and critics at home say his economic policies are failing, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad still rallies Iran's poor with his common touch and promises of state handouts.
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Iran responded to fresh EU criticism of its human rights situation by saying it was concerned by what it alleged were violations in Europe and a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in the Netherlands.
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VENICE, Italy  - All Iranian filmmakers  working in their homeland have to face the trials of the  censor, but if the subject matter includes abortion, adultery  and lesbian love, the chances of gaining official approval in  the Islamic republic are all but zero.
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U.S. troops' detention of eight Iranians in Iraq &#151; along with TV images of them being led away blindfolded and handcuffed &#151; drew swift condemnation Wednesday from Tehran officials.
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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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Iran hit back at Canada on Friday for  criticizing its rising number of executions and treatment of  women, accusing Ottawa of racism, police brutality and treating  its indigenous people like second class citizens.
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Iran's top leaders defended a new fuel rationing plan Saturday that sparked violence earlier this week, saying it will free up funding for development projects and make the country "invincible," state-run television reported.
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The crisis over Iran&#39;s nuclear program is heating up. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved a resolution criticizing Iran&#39;s continued refusal to cease its plans to enrich 40 tons of uranium.