Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 36

6-September-2004

IRAN

IOCs Entangled In Irans Politics

International oil companies (IOCs) are increasingly becoming used as pawns in the political maneuverings of Iranian conservative MPs against the reformist government. MEES understands that Iranian Minister of Culture Ahmad Masjed-Jamei was called before the Majlis (parliament) on 9 August to answer charges by conservative MPs that his department had failed to control cultural activities undertaken...