It would involve a sale of the profitable engineering arm, plus the airport services or budget airline subsidiaries.
In 2010 he was approached by Khatam al-Anbia, the engineering arm of the Revolutionary Guards, which was prevented by the sanctions from repatriating money from abroad.
The company's other activities remain solid, with food thriving and its nuclear engineering arm expected to benefit from the Government's £1bn-a-year decommissioning programme.
On Tuesday the group – predominantly the airline, with its engineering arm, and holiday company Cosmos – signed a share-purchase agreement with Greybull that it hopes will lead to a final sale by 24 October for a token sum.
Their engineering arm, known as Ghorb, has been granted juicy slices of big state projects, including the building of gas pipelines and a new section of the Tehran metro.Sayeed Laylaz, a former government official and now a private economist in Tehran, says simply that the Guards are "Iran's nomenklatura a new social class formed by domination of the economy".
But some better numbers than we have currently are required and TsNIIMash, the engineering arm of the Russian space agency (Roscosmos), will gather all the available data.
Privately-held consumer durables arm Godrej & Boyce which he runs as chairman and managing director, from the group's headquarters in suburban Mumbai, has a fast-growing engineering arm that supplies rockets to India's space program.
In late January, Bonobos CEO and founder Andy Dunn began to realize that the bi-coastal situation wasn't working out — the Bonobos brand and retail teams worked out of New York, while the engineering arm remained in Silicon Valley.
While startups are sexy, DreamWorks Animation says it has the budget and the chops to keep advanced engineers engaged and well-compensated — this seems to partly be a bid to make sure that people know the company takes its engineering arm seriously.
