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The head of the Iranian Privatization Organization said that since 2005 Iran privatised $63 billion worth of government equity. This is approximately 50% of the 10-year plan to privatize 80 percent of state-owned assets.
In most cases the government handed 20 percent of the equity in targeted companies as "justice" shares to the poor and retains 20 percent. Of the remaining 10 percent, five percent is given to employees of the company and the rest is offered publicly to set a price prior to the majority stake sale.
Economists criticise the Ahmadinejad government for selling to companies run by state-appointed management. The biggest deal was the selling of 51% of shares of the Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) to an Iranian consortium for $8 billion.Reports suggesting that one of the consortium members belongs to the Revolutionary Guards Corps.
The IRGC has become a major economic force in recent years because of its controversial and overwhelming presence in the energy, finance and construction sectors.
source: PressTV, AFP


Reformist ayatolla Montazeri criticized the role of Basij militia in the violent suppression of the post-election protesters and said that the Basij was not established to serve "in the path of the Satan."
During the demonstrations the Basij violently attacked crowds and fired shots in the crowds. Authorities denied the role of the Basij and said that infiltrators in Basij uniforms had carried out the attacks.
The Basij was established 1979 by Khomeini to serve as a paramilitary organization to protect the country.
In the Iran-Iraq war thousands of Basij members died in the battlefield.
Since then the function of the Basij,which remain under the supervision of the Revolutionary Guards is changed.
Revolutionary Guard Commander, Hosein Hamadani announced that the function is modified and instead of a military, defensive function, from now on they will engage in "security and cultural activities".
He said to Mehrnews that "by security activities we mean confrontation of soft threats."
The government refers to the protest as so-called "soft war".
source: payvand.com




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