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Feb192012
The Latest from Iran (19 February): "The Islamic Republic Does Not Need a Supreme Leader"
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The Latest from Iran (18 February): The Issue is the Economy
2042 GMT: All-Is-Well Alert. Minister of Economy Shamseddin Hosseini announced today that the economy grew 5.8% in the Iranian year ending 20 March 2011.
Hosseini said growth was 6.1% excluding the oil sector.
The Central Bank of Iran had previously announced that economic growth for 2010/11 was 3.5% including the oil sector, and 4.3% excluding the oil sector.
No explanation is given as to why Hosseini was putting out figures almost a year old, rather than more recent data on the economy.