Disapproving anybody for being “too good” is beyond ludicrous. Interesting they don’t mention issues with male nominees.

He said, “The attack on (Tehran) University dorm and certain mistreatments in detention centers were foul deeds,” according to state-sponsored PressTV. He has lost control of the discussion.

If it is actually Sherkateh Mokhaberat that is the main Landline operator, as well as much of the back end DSL network. Most DSL providers rent back end network from TCI, as well as rely on its dry DSL hookup for the last mile.

In English the Management is split into MCI – Mobile Company of Iran and TCI – Telecoms Company of Iran. There was plans to create a management company that reports to the communication minister and spin these two companies out as private companies. This has been planned and re planned for some 6 to 7 years with delay on delay. The problem is that many people use the terms interchangeably…. Second problem is that both have been up for privatization for so long with so many cancellations that one does not know which one is coming up for sale. My understanding was that they were looking to sell MCI first and TCI second. But who knows…

Paraphrasing whereismyvote from the other day: what was he thinking? The question covers every step along the way. At every stage, there are steps he could have taken to de-escalate, but he’s done little in that direction. Is it that he can’t or that he won’t?

I think the rumour is saying “Sherkate Mokhaberate Iran” would that not make it beyond just the cell phone operators?

They are actuallt buying “”Sherkate Mokhaberat” it self

There are three current cell operators in Iran. Talia owned by Rafsanjani, but severely limited in operation to only 2 million subscribers in and around Tehran and some small other cities. Officially Talia does not have a national spectrum licence and acts as an MVNO and operates under the MCI licence, but has some of its own Switches and Infrastructure too. So its a partial MVNO, partial carrier…. (Only in Iran)
Iran Cell with well into 20 million subscribers heavily owned by 1) Pasdaran 2) MTN of Africa and 3) Other private investors. Finally we have the MTC (State Mobile Telephone Company) with well over 24 million subscribers and they have been planning to float shares of it in the exchange for some time now (4 years and counting) If a sale happens it will be that they will float the shares and then a Pasdaran fronted company will buy them on the exchange. This is not only possible, but it is well known that in the last 5 years Pasdaran have started to buy the shares of many many many companies from drug manufacture, to car manufacture on the stock exchange. I think it is more than likely that if the floatation proceeds it will happen.

The Russians were to be granted a new licence for third national operator, and it seems that it is in limbo. This is a 3G spectrum as well as a regular licence, so it could be quite lucrative. Etisalat of UAE and a Kuwait company bid on it before pulling back. The Russians were the third bid, but there is a lot of fight cause the Russians are not willing to pay the so called 200 million the government wanted for the licence. The Chinese has the right for all network contracts for this new carrier.

RAND has a great in depth article on this force, if you want to see in detail their activities, story etc. Search in google for RAND and IRGC.

@All

One last point, and it is that I have been singing how the Pasdaran are taking over Iran since 2005 / 2006. Especially in Business and now completely in politics. It is only this week it seems that the mainstream media has started to smell the coffee. Many journals are now starting to dig into this force and see what they are about. Where as we all said over 5 to 6 weeks ago that Pasdaran has staged a coupe and taken the SL along with them.