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Iran: Angry citizens burn gas station over rationing

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Angry Iranians set fire to a Tehran petrol station and chanted anti-government slogans in a northwest area of the capital on Tuesday in protest against fuel rationing introduced in OPEC's number two oil producer.

 

A witness said flames rose from the petrol station in a poorer area the capital, with cars burning inside. Some youths hurled stones and chanted, "Guns, fireworks, tanks, (President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad should be killed", the witness said. (Reuters)

 

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