Iran auctions off two largest football clubs to private sector

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  • Source:
    BBC Monitoring International Reports, December 21, 2018 Middle East, 2pp
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    • Abstract:
      By BBC Monitoring The Iranian government is expecting a lucrative deal as it gears to auction off two biggest football clubs to the private sector, the president of Iranian Privatisation Organisation told official IRNA news agency on 20 December. Mirali Ashraf Abdollah Pouri Hosseini told IRNA that if nothing goes wrong, the two largest Tehrani clubs, Perspolis and Esteqlal, will be sold to the highest bidders from the private sector by the end of the current Iranian year (20 March 2019)...