by MD in TorontoCrescent Magazine
February 4th, 2010
If implemented as planned, Ahmadinejad’s economic reforms will demonstrate that without the social justice aspect, any claim to economic growth is empty rhetoric.
Right after taking office in 2005, the Fundamentalist President headed to Iran's poorest provinces, neglected by a decade of reformist-conservative mafias which did not go further in the economic arena than filling own and relatives' pockets with the wealth of the nation. In the humblest Khorasan, Ahmadinejad challenged these corruption networks: "If God wills, we will break the resistance to Justice, and raise its flag in all corners of this Islamic land". He seemed to know what was coming, as the mafias' attempt to impede this trend has today even led them to serve colored coup attempts planned and financed from abroad. In spite of this, the struggle to free Iran from such snobbish gangs is yet to be put off.
