Global money woes hit, with inflation at 19%
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
LONDON – Financial analysts for British intelligence agencies have produced a graphic view of how the global financial crisis is affecting the Iranian economy, with inflation rampaging at 19 percent and fuel for cars on a ration-only basis, according to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
The assessment comes just as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad secures his hold on the country after this week's elections, which saw hard-liners overwhelmingly returned to power.
The elections affirmed the Islamic Republic's continuation through a combination of brutal suppression and a highly effective security system controlled by the Revolutionary Guards.
But behind that, there are growing signs the financial crisis that has rocked Wall Street and world stock markets has begun to bite ever deeper into the Iranian economy. 
A country which is awash with oil – Iran produces 4.3 million barrels a day and possesses the world's second largest reserve of oil – cannot provide sufficient quantities of refined material to meet the needs of its 65 million people.
An MI6 report states: "The reason for this state of affairs is clear. The regime's insistence on diverting an increasing amount of energy and resources in pursuit of the holy grail of nuclear enrichment and the subsequent UN economic sanctions that policy has attracted. It means the ayatollahs are unable to maintain the oil-refining facilities for domestic purposes."
MI6 analysts – working with information which in part came from anti-regime sources in Iran – show the country's economic inflation is now at 19 percent and the regime has failed to meet any of its growth targets.
The result is that there is rationing of 100 liters a month of gasoline for each household -- the equivalent of two full tanks for the average family car.
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