A Look at Bonyad-e Mostazafan Industries

Synopsis

Bonyad-e Mostazafan (Mostazafan Foundation) is an Iranian para-state conglomerate of companies from across the spectrum of industries, including finance, media, food, agriculture, energy, tourism, construction, and mining. Bonyad-e Mostazafan is ostensibly a charitable organization charged with providing benefits for it's eponymous "poor and oppressed," however it is also a multi-billion dollar enterprise that is exempt from oversight and regulation that functions as a revenue source for various revolutionary apparatus, including security and military forces.