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Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/23/ING61BKAOO.DTL
Corruption, Profiteering Rage under Ahmadinejad
(San Francisco Chronicle) Joel Brinkley - In 2005, Transparency International placed Iran at no. 88 of 158 countries on its Corruption Perceptions Index. By 2007, Iran had fallen to 131st place. This year, Iran is 168th out of 180, in the company of Sudan, Chad and Burma. Corruption "is very widespread, and everyone is in on the action, everyone at the top," said Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University. "You have to bribe the postman to get your mail delivered," said Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian studies program at Stanford University. "It's pandemic."