The sad tale of a textile factory
Clerical politics and bad management
SHORTLY before Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, the entrepreneurial and philanthropic Hamedanian brothers bequeathed the trusteeship of their conglomerate to the great and good of Isfahan. According to the 1,350 workers at the Bafnaz textile factory, one of its divisions, it was a rotten decision.
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