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Argo, The First Iran's Major Drink Manufactoring Factory

Founder and director of the Pejman Foundation, Hamidreza Pejman (2nd L), speaks with his relatives as they stand in the Argo Factory in Tehran’s business district, amid the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Iran, on September 18, 2020 one day before the day that the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that The U.S. is moving to reissue all United Nations sanctions against Iran. Argo Factory is a non-profit cultural institution, housed in an old building of a factory in Tehran that was also one of the major drink manufacturing factories in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s and now this old and historical building kept saved from destruction and reconstructed by the founder and director of the Pejman Foundation, Hamidreza Pejman, while the Iranian governments and clerics are against the alcoholic drinks, but in Iran's western neighbor, Turkey’s first modern beer factory, Bomonti factory, has destructed by the order of the Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a mosque will be built at the place of the beer factory. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)

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