At a seminar on media and economy, Ahmadinejad said he believed Iranian scientists possess the capability to do so and called on them to start working on a global economic models based on ethical and humanitarian values. Ahmadinejad’s statements come amid the domestic concerns over the steady rise of the country’s inflation since he took office in summer 2005. Iran had the highest annual inflation rate among the Middle East countries, according to the report of the Central Bank of Iran released in November 2008.
