How one industrialist teamed up with clerics and the paramilitary to amass wealth. Motallebi Kashani’s vast business network illuminates the ways in which members of Iran’s political right are beholden to religious and defense institutions.
Qassem Soleimani’s legacy lies not in his military prowess, but in the business empire he helped create.
The supposed father of the feared “Iranian bomb” never published a scholarly work, but his family’s firms have done very well for themselves.
Conflicts of interest, nepotism, and preferential treatment pervade charity ownership among Iran’s ruling elite.
How a wealthy, unelected Principlist pulls the strings of his coalition.
An airline executive with a long military record assumes an influential legislative post, expanding the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ political clout.
Adept at forging alliances to advance his agenda, Speaker Qalibaf has been filling prominent positions with friends and confederates such as Ahadian, an in-law of the Supreme Leader.