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COMMERCE vii. In the Pahlavi and post-Pahlavi periods
A prominent feature of Persian export trade was the steady rise in both the value and volume of oil shipments through almost the entire Pahlavi period until the Revolution, when this trend was reversed. Because of the large increase in price in 1352 Š./1973 the value of Persian oil exports climbed substantially more than the volume in the 1970s. Other exports fared less well.
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HEDIN, SVEN
Swedish explorer of, and prolific writer on, Central Asia and Persia (1865-1952).