Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
Continuation of Ahmadinejad-era Targeted Subsidies Reform (2010) with administrative tightening under Rouhani: self-declaration campaign asking wealthier Iranians to forgo the ~455,000-rial monthly cash transfer, means- testing pilots, and freezing of the per-capita nominal payment despite inflation. By 2020 the real value of the cash transfer had eroded by ~80% from 2010 levels. Fuel-price increments (premium gasoline, diesel) through 2015-2018 partially restored subsidy-reform fiscal space before the Nov 2019 overhaul.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.