After establishing its expertise as a global provider of logistics services involving vehicle shipments, the company has reached into other industries: steel, machinery, heavy chemicals, energy, construction and consumer goods.

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Today, Ghorb and the many other IRGC front companies that have sprung up beneath it have stakes in telecommunications and energy, logistics and services, and automobiles of which Iran is the largest manufacturer in the Middle East.

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