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and a managing director responsible for the actual management and planning activities. Although the DIO director was accountable to the deputy minister of defense for
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with the necessary manufacturing capacity and technical abilities. In recent years, the DIO has attempted to become export-oriented, allowing Iran to become an
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was put in charge of re-organising the domestic military industry. Under their command Iran's military industry was dramatically expanded, and with the
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