Reuters: These are some of the leading stories in Iranian newspapers on Saturday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. TEHRAN, Jan 16 (Reuters) – These are some of the leading stories in Iranian newspapers on Saturday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
ABRAR
– Police will confront those who use mobile phone text and e-mail messages to organise anti-government unrest, said its chief Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam.
EBTEKAR
– "The high fever of TV debates," said the daily, asking whether the state broadcaster's attempt to move protests from streets to the media will help restore calm.
ARMAN
– "There will be no poor or unemployed in Iran within the next three years" with the implementation of a subsidy reform plan, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
BAHAR
– With the elimination of subsidies from the energy sector, consumers' electricity bills will be multiplied by 21.5 times, said a Power Ministry official.
ABRAR-E EQTESADI
– Upon the enforcement of the subsidy plan, Iran's current annual inflation rate of 20 percent will double, said lawmaker and economic analyst Najib Hosseini.
AFTAB-E YAZD
– The price of subsidised gasoline, now 1,000 rials (10 U.S. cents) a litre, may rise 2.5 times under the government's budget bill for 2010-11, said a member of the parliament's plan and budget committee.
