[AdmSmith]

The financial power of the Revolutionary Guards The corps, which was born as a volunteer militia in the heat of the 1979 revolution, is now unrecognisable from those early beginnings. It has grown into a behemoth which dominates both Iran's official and black economies. It is impossible to gauge its market share, but western estimates range from a third to nearly two-thirds of Iran's GDP – amounting to tens of billions of dollars. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/15/financial-power-revolutionary-guard

[AdmSmith]

More about the fruit industry
http://iranfacts.blogspot.com/2010/01/oil-for-orange.html