In the 1990s, the Iranian government under Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani opened the economy to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to leverage its wartime expertise for reconstruction and secure political support for reintegrating Iran into the global economy.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: BTI Project
  Iran Country Report 2026 - BTI Transformation Index

Sources

• Iran Country Report 2026 - BTI Transformation Index bti-project.org BTI Project via serper

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• Iran location
• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps entity