Privatization Failures Abound

Policy and decision makers, experts and authorities attending the First International Conference on Privatization in Iran are unanimous in their views that the current privatization plans and policies are at best superficial and must be restructured.
The four-day meeting opened Saturday at the Iran International Conference Center in north Tehran to discuss the major challenges confronting the privatization agenda and review its two-decade history in Iran.  
Addressing the conferees, President Ebrahim Raisi underscored the need for "a critical and precise reconsideration" of past privatization practices. 
“Whatever happened in the name of privatization in the past was indeed government takeover by another name.”