Shahram jazayeri reza rashidpour biography

While he might think of himself as an entrepreneur deserving a Nobel in economy, for some others, what the 43-year old Shahram Jazayeri deserves is only another term in prison.

Jazayeri turned into a household name in 2002, when he was labeled as an agent corrupteur by the judiciary for undermining the natural flow of the Iranian economy. One decade earlier, a similar accusation had inflicted death upon another businessman, Fazel Khodadad, who was charged with multi-billion-dollar embezzlement.

Jazayeri was a youngster when he was arraigned on counts of economic corruption: twenty-nine years old, a very early age to become rich in Iran, where the wealthy are viewed with a cynical eye and suspicious of having strong ties with powerful circles inside the establishment.

In the heat of the strife between the Reformists and Principlists, Jazayeri's case was inevitably politicized. Reformists suff