Doug Henwood Talks

On May 15, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

The sanctions have continued and expanded in recent years, which makes it difficult for the neoliberal faction of Iran’s power elite to privatize as much as they would like.

Ahmadinejad among them. From yesterday’s FT:

Ahmadi-Nejad woos expat investors By Simeon Kerr in Dubai Published: May 14 2007 03:00 | Last updated: May 14 2007 03:00 Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad used the first visit to the United Arab
Emirates by an Iranian president since the 1979 Islamic revolution
to call on expatriate Iranians to invest in the republic’s - privatisation programme

Mr Ahmadi-Nejad told -Iranian businessmen that the planned sale of
half of the state-owned enterprises gave them the opportunity to
invest in Iran via the stock market.

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