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Do your students have their critical thinking skills working? Try them out on this one. Do subsidy checks to citizens have nothing to do with the Iranian election?Iranian accused of trying to buy votes
Opponents have accused Iran's hard-line president of trying to buy votes before the June 12 presidential election by handing out checks.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government defends the payments, saying the checks for $50 and $100 have nothing to do with the election...
The government has been distributing the money to poor families since last year, and in recent weeks it broadened the distribution to include students and teachers. It also announced that on May 10 it began making $80 payments to 5.5 million people in rural areas...
Politicians on both sides of the country's reformist-conservative political divide have said the payments promote a "begging culture." The one conservative candidate challenging Ahmadinejad, Mohsen Rezaei, said the president should create jobs rather than dole out money...
Labels: corruption, elections, Iran
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