As Reuters reports there is a political cleavage leading up to the Iranian presidential election in June. But it's coming from the inside of the political elites, not the reformist movement candidates. "Reformists are unlikely to get a look in. Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, who ran against Ahmadinejad in a 2009 election they denounced as rigged, languish under house arrest."
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Analysis: Khamenei mobilizes loyalists to swing Iran's election
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Also, from last year a post on the IMF urging sanctions against Iran to be lifted. Do you agree?
Despite Western sanctions that have been leveled on Iran as far back as the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and increasingly due to the recent lack of transparency of its nuclear program, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank still subsidize the Iranian economy. And prior to the IMF's spr
ing
meetings in Washington, the head of the IMF praised Iranian economic reforms and
expressed hope that Western sanctions would be lifted.(From Press TV and The Economist)
Managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the economic reforms carried out by the Iranian government in recent years, especially the Subsidy Reform Plan, have been positive and constructive.
In a meeting with Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Mahmoud Bahmani on the sidelines of semiannual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, Christine Lagarde expressed hope that Western sanctions against Iran's central bank would be lifted.
Lagarde also indicated her concern about the fluctuations in global oil prices and their impact on the world economic growth, Fars News Agency reported on Sunday.
Bahmani,
for his part, pointed to the most important economic developments resulting from
fluctuation in oil prices which have affected oil consumer countries.
He
also discussed the implementation of the Subsidy Reforms Plan in Iran,
value-added tax, structural reforms in the banking system, and the impact of oil
price fluctuations on global economy with Lagarde.
Bahmani said Iran, as a founding member of both the IMF and World Bank, has
had good financial and monetary relations with these international bodies and
expects IMF to continue its support for all member states, especially founding
members. Bahmani also pointed to the destructive impact of Iran oil sanctions on the world economy and explained its effect on global economic growth and inflation, especially in view of the ongoing financial crisis in Europe.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/237550.html
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Sanctions Against Iran
Should the IMF and the World Bank be giving subsidies to Iran, if sovereign nations of the UN have sanctions against them?
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