Taxing Times

Since his troubled reelection in 2009, reforming the economy has been the key objective of the President Ahmadinejad government. In spite of widespread objections, for example, Ahmadinejad took the bold step and imposed the lifting of the subsidies in an attempt to simultaneously rationalise the economy and disenfranchise his middle-class critics by promising more targeted subsidies for the lower classes that support his government. In a way, the international community ought to be thanke...

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