Iran�s former president�Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani�criticized�Mahmoud Ahmadinejad�s policies and his government�s �imaginary� economic indicators, the�Donya-e- Eqtesad�newspaper reported.
An energy and food subsidies reform plan that started in 2010 failed to boost local production and growth, he said. Instead, it led to an �insignificant amount of cash distributed to the population in exchange for alarming inflation,� Rafsanjani said, according to the daily.

�People are feeling the multiplication of prices and the drop of the national currency�s value with their flesh and skin,� Rafsanjani said. �Yet some are still content with their imaginary statistics.�

Several officials and local economists have criticized the government�s withholding of economic statistics, while the head of parliament�s research center in 2011 said reports on the unemployment rate were deceitful.

Iran is holding a presidential election on June 14 and Ahmadinejad isn�t eligible to run.

By Bloomberg

 

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