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1974: Iran
Iran startled the business world this summer by purchasing a 25.04 percent interest in the steel-making subsidiary of West Germany's Krupp industrial combine. It was the first major acquisition of European industrial equity by a Middle Eastern oil-producing state. As part of the deal, Iran also...
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