How Sabet became one of Iran's richest man?

Sabet admits that he did not know much about cars, but he finally settled on a Ford, whose representative was a man named Charles Corm: ‘Corm was a dignified, well-mannered man, a poet and a scholar who has left behind a number of books and poems. He was very well dressed and always wore pastel-coloured silk shirts and elegant suits.’

Sabet adds that Charles Corm imported detached pieces of American cars and then had them assembled in Beirut. ‘The cars, all of them black, were priced at between 80 and 85 Ottoman pounds.’ Sabet bought a car, drove it on his pilgrimage to Haifa (he was a Baha’i), and then returned to Iran via Baghdad, where he picked up passengers. In Teheran he sold the car for twice the price he had paid, and with that profit returned to Beirut where he bought more cars. He started a lucrative passenger service for Iranian pilgrims to the shrine cities in Iraq, then became a major importer and later industrialist, and by 1978 was one of Iran's richest men. He died in exile in Los Angeles in 1990, all his companies having been confiscated after the revolution.

(H. E. Chehabi, Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 years, Centre for Lebanese Studies in association with I.B.Tauris Publishers, p 24)

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