GAS RATIONING START IN IRAN

Iranians wait in line for gasoline in Tehran on June 27, 2007. Iran, the world's second-largest oil exporter, will begin gasoline rationing for private vehicles yesterday to rein in consumption and cut expensive gas imports. Iranians set fire to a dozen gas stations in the capital early Wednesday and smashed windows, angered by the sudden start of fuel rationing, a step that threatens to further increase the unpopularity of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)