Iranian Officials Warn of Unrest Tied to Subsidy Cuts

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Source: New York Times

After suppressing the political protests that followed last year’s disputed presidential election, Iran’s security forces are now on the alert for a new kind of domestic threat — strikes and civil unrest provoked by planned cuts in fuel subsidies.
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Top police officials have issued a series of warnings this month against the threat of an overflow of tensions following the cuts, which some fear could set off a chain reaction of price increases and economic hardships in a country already stricken by high inflation and widespread unemployment.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/world/middleeast/11iran.html?ref=todayspaper

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The Mullahs are REALLY bad at managing a modern economy. This could soon bring them down.