Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Iran, Dec. 20,2018 – A bridge in the city of Maku in northwest Iran has gone “missing,” according to Iranian regime officials.
“In a road construction project between the two cities of Poldasht and Marganlar, a bridge priced at 200 billion rials (around $4.76 million according to official exchange rates) has gone missing,” said the director general of the regime’s free trade zone near the Iran-Turkey border.
State-run media outlets are revealing how Iranian regime officials are now extremely concerned and going to distance to cover up this subject.
“Considering the impact of this report across the local province and what a regional director has described as ‘refraining from publishing negative news and taking into consideration higher interests,’ directors of the Maku free trade zone took steps to balance their positions to some extent… State property going missing have turned into major news reports in the past few years. After an oil rig going missing, this time there is the word of a 200 billion rial bridge.”
It is worth noting that the Fars news agency, affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), had written about an oil rig going missing back in the fall of 2015.
“Two dealers were participating in the purchasing process of this oil rig. One was Mohammad Hassan Mohajerani, who had received 3 billion rials for a down payment. Having business relations with Reza Mostafavi Tabatabaie, the main dealer of this oil rig, he has taken a 40 percent stake out of every contract signed to purchase oil equipment.”
It is also worth reminding that the Forchuna oil rig was sold to Iran during the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a price of 87 million dollars, with DEAN, a United Arab Emirates company. However, instead of being transferred to Iran the oil rig was sent directly to the Gulf of Mexico.
