Existing institutions fail to arbitrate a resource-allocation "dispute" between living and future generations, both of which have "claims" on present and future national output.

对于这一代和未来几代人之间的资源分配“争议”，现有制度未能做出公断，因为双方都对目前和未来的国民产值有“索取权”。

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Earlier this month, Mr Khatami had to set up a special committee to arbitrate a dispute between the Interior Ministry and a conservative watchdog group, after the group had rejected dozens of his closest allies in Tehran and Isfahan, many of them with revolutionary credentials.

ECONOMIST: Iran