"The remote industrial complex of Lia boasts one of the larger concentrations of factories in Iran’s northwest – not that you would know it if you visited on a working day.
While Lia is home to hundreds of small businesses and thousands of workers, traffic is slow and there are few workers on the streets. It is a sign, businessmen say, of how much domestic industry has suffered in recent years, hit hard not just by international sanctions but by the populist policies of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the outgoing president."
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