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Article: IRAN: PISTACHIO GROWERS AND CAR IMPORTERS.(political corruption and the Hashemi family)(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Corruption in Iran often is linked with powerful extended families. One of those about which there have been numerous complaints is the large Hashemi family from Kerman Province. They are wealthy from pistachio-farming and land- owning activities before the revolution, Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi- Rafsanjani went from being a close ally of the Father of the Revolution to being a two-term president and now chairman of the Expediency Council, and other Hashemis are active in every branch of the government. Recent allegations of corruption link the Hashemi family with a pistachio cooperative and with dubious vehicle imports. The Rafsanjan Pistachio Growers Cooperative ...
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