Iran’s rich eat ice cream covered in gold as poor struggle to survive
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/08/irans-rich-eat-ice-cream-covered-in.html
TEHRAN — Gold-flecked ice cream wasn't part of the picture that Shiite Muslim clerics painted during the Iranian Revolution, when they promised to lift the poor by distributing the country's vast oil income equally across society.
But more than three decades later, record oil profits have brought in billions, and some people here are enjoying that decadent dessert. The trouble is, it's just a small group of wealthy Iranians. Despite the promises of the revolution, many here say the gap between rich and poor has never seemed bigger.
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