Theirengineeringarm, known as Ghorb, has beengranted juicy slices ofbigstateprojects, includingthebuildingofgaspipelinesandanew section of the Tehranmetro.
Originally founded as the construction and engineering branch of the IRGC at the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Ghorb initially focused on reconstruction, but it soon ventured into other fields.
Security Council, the United States and other countries began going after companies that operate in Iran, Ghorb offered an object lesson in the hazards of doing business with Iranian partners.
Imagine the embarrassment for Wirth and Herrenknecht, two German companies that had supplied Ghorb and one of its subsidiaries with the tunnel boring machinery necessary to construct the facility.