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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3542652.ece
All Ahmadinejad Has Done Is Create Poverty
[Times-UK] Martin Fletcher and Ramita Navai - Mokhtar, an Iranian laborer, voted enthusiastically for President Ahmadinejad in 2005 because he had pledged to help the poor. Now, he says, he feels so disillusioned that he will never vote again. Work is scarce. The rent on his one-bedroom flat has jumped from $120 to $180 a month. Food prices are soaring. He recalls Ahmadinejad's pledge to put oil money on every Iranian's dinner table. "It was precisely for that slogan that I voted for him but it didn't happen," he says. "All he's done is create inflation and poverty." A diplomat said Ahmadinejad "has a well-intentioned desire to redistribute wealth but has gone about it in ridiculous ways that have ruined the economy."