Iran's energy sector review

President Rouhani's administration has set the goal of 519 trillion rials, (about $20.9 billion) government's income from implementation of the subsidy reform plan in budget bill. The government's income from the subsidy reform plan is expected to be around $11.26 billion in the current year. The Parliament approved the generalities of changes to the next year's budget bill on Jan.28. One of the most controversial items of the budget was the subsidy reform plan. The budget bill didn't specify detailed fuels prices, but increasing the government's incomes from the subsidy reform plan means more cuts to the state finances on subsided commodities and the necessity of raising fuel prices. Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration in December 2010 implemented the subsidy reform plan to make some profit. The subsidy reform plan is aimed at easing pressure on state finances by cutting tens of billions of dollars from government subsidies ...

  By Dalga Khatinoglu Three years after being hit on the head during a police raid on Ankara  University , 25-year-old Arkadash Zekai Ozger’s body was found on the streets. A year after his death –caused by cerebral hemorrhage – in 1973, a collection of his poems that have been published in different newspapers and magazines, was gathered by his friends and published under a book named "It Is Love". Arkadash Zekai Ozger I’m someone, Who talks less, but tires more I like to drink wine with Halva I’ve never whispered any prayers But I love God and mom, My mom loves Him too Love of God and cats runs in our family We all love God and cats traditionally Life is a tragedy of a homosexual In my eyes, all homosexuals are similar to Adonis Because every drunkenness, Is a bit similar to Freud’s non-alcoholic deliriums… Arkadash Zekai Ozger In modern times, Adonis's name is often applied to handsome youths. Adonis –the god of beauty- has ...