Remove from the rich to give to the poor. So, taking to witness the Koran, Ahmadinejad said he launched the "biggest economic reform in the history of the Islamic Republic." This was announced in a speech live on television: it is clear the system of subsidies that for thirty years kept artificially low prices of petrol, gas, electricity and basic foodstuffs such as bread, water, sugar and oil.The money that the government expects to save with this maneuver - Ahmadinejad promised - will be redistributed in the form of direct payments to private bank accounts of all citizens who so request by filling out a declaration of their income. In five years, when all the benefits of reform have been achieved, Iran - proclaimed the president - will be "a paradise on earth." But it was not easy to convince Iran of the benefits and redistributive effects of reform.
Also because the immediate effect was to make leap to high inflation, while money still has not arrived in the accounts of those who made the request. Fearing, despite the promises, the repetition of the riots a few years ago went with the first increase in gasoline, the government soon after the announcement sent the police to patrol the streets of Tehran as people ran to take the final full- 1000 rials (12 euro cents) per liter.
It 's true that the old system was mainly benefited the wealthy, who paid ridiculous prices for heating houses, pools and saunas, or go out on their SUVs, and favored enormous waste: the houses in Iran, not even the wealthy were always iperriscaldate and with the lights on. While already in the first three days after the reform, the government argues, the consumption of electricity fell by 11 percent and millions of gallons of gasoline were saved.
But the massive and immediate increase in prices (seven times more than gasoline, diesel, fifteen, four of the bread and so on) was a shock that is added to the dissatisfaction following the elections of 2009 and laid to rest with the hard repression still ongoing. If, however, Ahmadinejad has launched a radical reform, it is argued in Tehran, it means that he managed to consolidate his power within the ruling group.
The consequences - is the provision of diplomats in Tehran - could be heard at the next round of nuclear talks which resume today. "Iran is certainly present with the more assertive tone, but perhaps a system could be less divided permettereall'Iran to maintain an agreement once reached"
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