Ahmadinejad's Plan to Curb Government Subsidies Threatens to Alienate Recipients
A motorcyclist buys fuel in Tehran. To blunt the blow of gas prices quadrupling without the subsidies, the poor will get as much as $70 extra a month. (By Hasan Sarbakhshian -- Associated Press)
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