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Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, offered a crucial gesture of support Monday for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s effort to enact a sweeping economic-reform plan that would curtail the country’s long-established system of state subsidies.
After Ahmadinejad issued his latest call for Parliament to support his proposal, Khamenei, speaking at a meeting of Cabinet ministers and other senior figures, urged all parties to help Ahmadinejad’s administration in “facilitating” passage of a subsidies-reform bill.
Lawmakers across the political spectrum have warned of catastrophic price shocks if supports are eliminated.
