VOL. XLI

No. 11

16-March-1998

IRAN

Iranian Government Says It Plans To Privatize State Companies

The Iranian Government has decided to privatize some 2,400 state-owned companies,Iranian Government spokesman Ataollah Mohajerani announced last week. The decision wastaken at a meeting of the government council chaired by President Mohammad Khatami. Mr.Mohajerani said that the government had expressed "its readiness to ease its controlover state companies and to transfer them to the private and...