For all that the "licence Raj" was supposedly scrapped two decades ago, it can still take nearly 200 days to get a construction permit and seven years to closeabusiness.
It has grown from a one-man business to a multi-million dollar business with close to $10 million in assets.
它已从一个单人经营的生意发展成资产近千万、业务额达数百万美元的公司。
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Periodic surges of intense Iranian economic nationalism must be understood partly as a reaction to the close relations between British business in Iran and the British government.