Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19 – An individual identified only as “Mr. R.” has amassed an enormous personal wealth by taking out the equivalent of 1.5 billion dollars in loans from Iran’s state banks, a semi-official daily close to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in its Tuesday edition.
The ultra-conservative daily Jomhouri Islami quoted an informed source as stating that Mr. R. took out at least 13,200,000,000,000 Rials in loans from the state’s financial institutions. None have been paid back.
That’s a powerful lot of Rials. And in Iranian parlance, “ultra-conservative” mean Ahmadinezhad’s crowd. They’re hectoring back at Rafsanjani after all those stories about Ahmadinezhad’s blunders in foreign policy, and of course the unforgettable teacher’s exam debacle.The War of the Persian Succession, what is it? Chapter Five, or thereabouts…






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