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Speaking of Iran

Special Report - Khamenei Controls Vast Financial Empire Built on Property Seizures

November 11, 2013
Speaking of Iran
Special Report - Khamenei Controls Vast Financial Empire Built on Property Seizures
Special Report - Khamenei Controls Vast Financial Empire Built on Property Seizures

REUTERS

BY STEVE STECKLOW, BABAK DEHGHANPISHEH AND YEGANEH TORBATI

(Reuters) - The 82-year-old Iranian woman keeps the documents that upended her life in an old suitcase near her bed. She removes them carefully and peers at the tiny Persian script.

There's the court order authorizing the takeover of her children's three Tehran apartments in a multi-story building the family had owned for years. There's the letter announcing the sale of one of the units. And there's the notice demanding she pay rent on her own apartment on the top floor.

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