> The
> significance of this fact can only be realised if you know that this period
> coincided with major interventions by the World Bank and the IMF in Iran
> leading to imposition of neo liberal solutions on Iran's economy. It was
> after this period that the policy of economic adjustment started in Iran,
> with disastrous consequences for the working masses.
Forgive my ignorance of such matters, but why, with all its petro-dollars, did (does?) Iran need the World Bank and IMF?
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam