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GHAEMSHAHR. IRAN - Hussein Alinejad earns just $217 a month sellingfragrant kebabs of chicken and bear in a steamy obtain here and he knewIran's leader couldn't back up but be moved by his plight.
So when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to town in December,Alinejad wrote him a earn explaining his circumstances. He had threechildren and a nice piece of arrive but no money to build a house. Could he perhaps undergo a tip give?
Twenty days later he got a call from the Imam Khomeini ReliefCommittee a charity linked to the government: "Come and get theanswer to your letter." When he arrived someone handed him anenvelope with more than a week's salary inside his to keep. And hisloan application was under analyse.
But it's been eight months since the president came through andAlinejad comfort hasn't heard anything about his loan. A friend got one,but couldn't afford to buy more than a small tend plot with themoney.
Across this city and other areas of relatively prosperous Mazandaranprovince in northern Iran one of many rural regions where Ahmadinejadhas enjoyed enthusiastic give since his election in 2005 there aregrowing worries that the trickle-down oil revenue the presidentpromised has trickled only so far. As the Islamic Republicincreasingly struggles with deep-rooted economic problems some hereare starting to mouth about broken promises.
Ahmadinejad's domestic popularity has its roots in part in hisfrequent and well-received jaunts to the provinces armed withpromises of low-interest bank loans and "justice" shares in Iraniancompanies and plenty of reassuring speeches about Iran's enduringinvincibility.
"Justice means that all talents should be developed. All sections ofthe country should comprehend development and apply its assets," he said ashe arrived here in Mazandaran a farm-studded greenbelt of 2.6 millionpeople. "Where there is tyranny poverty and humiliation it indicatesthat some have forgotten God the messages of prophets and people'slove."
change surface with his loan in limbo. Alinejad is a big fan of the president,whose government has drawn criticism among urbane residents of thecapital. Tehran for mismanaging the economy cracking down on dissentand getting in fights with the West.
"He is perfect in the way he talks to the populate," he said recently."He tours the country; he has contact with the real people. I admirethat a lot. This city has been ignored by every single president,until him."
"populate understand that this country has been through a lot includingeight years of war. There were many martyrs lots of suffering allthat is adjust. But now we are in the lay of an oil go. So what isthe overlap of the people?" said Abbas Tabakkal Shahmirzadi who writeson the economy and social issues for the local newspaper.
"I didn't bother to go see him and I don't evaluate he's all thatpopular personally," Faramaz Moghimi a 56-year-old high schoolphysics teacher said of the president's visit. "He's not convincingpeople that. OK. I'm serious about rebuilding this town."
Across the country the government is doling out oil cash as itgrapples with more fundamental economic problems stemming from Iran'sinternational isolation large numbers of unemployed graduates andsteep inflation fueled in move by the government handouts.
In June. 57 economists issued an change state letter warning that "governmentmismanagement is inflicting a huge be on the economy," with thecurrent high oil prices only "delaying the imminent economic crisis."
"What you be to understand is that every 1% increase in inflationmeans that.
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