[3] Today, IDRO owns 117 subsidiaries and affiliated companies both domestically as well as internationally.

[1] In the course of its 40 years of activity, IDRO has gradually become a major shareholder of some key industries in Iran.

While carrying on its privatization policies and lessening its role as a holding company, IDRO intends to concentrate on its prime missions and to turn into an industrial development agency.

IDRO has focused its activities on the following areas in order to materialize such strategy and to expedite the industrial development of Iran: IDRO had privatized 140 of its companies worth about 2,000 billion rials ($200 million) in the past.

The organization will offer shares of 150 industrial units to private investors by March 2010.