Word: hushang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordered the Iranian army out of the fields. Says NIOC District Manager Amraie: "The workers are calling the shots. It's now what they wanted it to be-a strictly Iranian operation." The beleaguered executive admits that there have been some ominous telephone threats, but unlike his boss, Hushang Ansary, who left Iran for "medical reasons" after a trip to the turbulent oilfields, Amraie has stuck to his post. Says he: "The Khomeini oil workers are true and good men, and they have more than a sackful of grievances. It's clear that what they want...
...position as one of the leading price hawks in the OPEC cartel-quite the opposite. Though Iran made a tiny price cut on heavy crude last winter as a concession to the market, its planners fully intend to argue OPEC into raising prices again this year. How much? Hushang Ansary, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, voices again the old idea of tying oil prices to an index of important imports: military hardware, capital goods and foodstuffs. Some of these, Ansary insists, "rose as much as 400% in the past nine months...
...billion last year, to $16 billion, and Iranian Ministries are jostling to grab all available funds for domestic development projects. Privately, Iranians also express worry about Pan Am's first-quarter loss of $59 million. "There was never any commitment on the part of Iran," says Hushang Ansary, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, who had helped draw up the loan plan with...
...corporations, constantly vie with private industry for talent. Universities have room for only one of every ten hopeful students who apply. The Shah's immediate circle of advisers is also surprisingly small. Among them are Premier Hoveida, 54, a dapper man who has held his job nine years; Hushang Ansary, 46, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance; Amir Assadullah Alam, 55, who acts as the sovereign's right hand as minister of the court; and Jamshid Amuzegar, 51, who until recently served as the Shah's voice and goad at OPEC meetings. Amuzegar last April was shifted...
...Shah. To encourage more foreign-capital inflows, the Iranians announced that private investors will henceforth be allowed to own majority stakes in joint ventures with the government, and that special export subsidies will be granted for products that they make in Iran and ship abroad. Said Economics Minister Hushang Ansary: "We will give investors ample opportunity to get wealthy...