Since he became president, Ahmadinejad has encouraged this basij economy, and today the pasdaran are granted trading licenses and exclusive control and use of some ports. These two networks are very often in competition, if not in conflict, with each other, reflecting the current Iranian political turmoil.
Pour ajouter à la confusion, il existe un autre groupe, les sarrafs (principalement des usuriers privés) qui sont l’interface incontournable entre les investisseurs étrangers et leurs contreparties iraniennes, qu’elles appartiennent aux bonyads ou au bassidj.