[JPOST] The rationing of food and essential goods might be coming back to Iran, for the first time since the Iran-Iraq war of (1980-1988), due to the sanctions being imposed on the Islamic republic - which may cause the government to have a larger role in the rationing of such products.The war left nearly two-million people dead and maimed on both sides of the fight, and it took years afterwards for the government to end this type of rationing.
Many are worried, including economic experts, that issuing the vouchers would bring more government interference into the already highly controlled country markets.
People in Iran used to refer to the 1980's as the "coupon era," where long lines formed just to procure simple things such as eggs or butter.
"Some goods might be rationed and distributed through vouchers or coupons," said Islamic Theocratic
RepublicVice President Es’haq Jahangiri without much elaboration according to a Radio Farda report. "We might be forced to ration some goods and reintroduce vouchers for distributing them."
The state usually subsidizes many of these good through their annual oil sales and out of country exports, normally bringing in $60 billion a year for the Islamic Theocratic
Republic- as well the government issues cash handouts from the government to purchase these goods.