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TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is coming under pressure on several fronts at home, just a month after the United Nations Security Council imposed its first sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear program.

Members of the Iranian Parliament criticized the president in two documents this week for his handling of the nuclear crisis and the faltering economy.

Last week two hard-line newspapers criticized Ahmadinejad for his comments about the country's nuclear program, saying he had complicated the matter.

Although the sanctions imposed by the Security Council on Dec. 23 concerned the Iranian nuclear program, they had begun to affect the economy.