How to Steal a Country: Genealogy of Privatisation in Iran

Drawing on many hours of interviews with twelve key insiders, the author, Bahman Amoei, uncovers the untold story of the Islamic Republic’s botched privatisation project. Because the process was never properly documented, it is only through the testimonies of those who shaped it that we can see how state assets were transformed within a closed and corrupt structure. This investigative account reconstructs a hidden history of power, politics, and dispossession.