... opposition was strictly prohibited. • Conservative Muslim protests promoted violence in 1978 so a military government was appointed to deal with the uprising oil workers. Prime minister Bakhtiar,Shahpur was appointed by the Shah to head a regency council in his absence. This system ran smoothly until ... is intermingled with its economy, just like most of the Arab-Islamic countries. "Iran's economy is a mixture of central planning, state ownership of oil and other large enterprises, village agriculture and small-scale private trading and service ventures." (www.mestee.com/countries/iran...

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