Another ayatollah (MOHAMMED YADZI) went to Khamenei, Palizar said, and said he wanted to build a law university for women in Qom. After receiving a license, he then asked to be given the Dena Tire company, a state-owned firm with a market value estimated at $600 million.
“Soon these gentlemen were asking for [greater] discounts, and eventually settled for 10 billion Toman [around $10 million],” Palizar said. “But then they said that they did not have the money and so would pay 80 percent of the price in installments.”
The Dena Tire company wasn’t Ayatollah Yazdi’s only payoff, Palizar revealed. He also wrote to the minister of Industries asking that his unemployed son, Hamid, be given control over the lucrative timber exports from the Caspian forests.
