Iran's Foundation of the Oppressed was established from the fortune of the shah and was designed to redistribute the wealth to the nation's poor. The foundation has made a lot of money in various investments, but not much of it has filtered down to the poor as yet. HE CONTROLS $4 billion worth of investment in 1,200 companies and nobody, except for Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, can fire him. He is Mohsen Rafiqdoost, managing director of Iran's Bonyad-e-Mostazafan, the Foundation of the Oppressed. The bonyad was set up on the fortune of the shah and other Iranians who fled ...
