He resigned from the presidency in 1992 following criticism of his involvement in a 1960s clandestine operation, sponsored by NATO, to prepare guerrilla fighters in the event of an invasion by Warsaw Pact countries.
Staff at the BBC's Persian service in London are among dozens of Iranian journalists who have been subjected to what appears to be an operation sponsored by the authorities and aimed at discrediting reporters in the eyes of the public in Iran.
The corporation believes this is part of what appears to be an operation sponsored by the authorities and aimed at discrediting reporters in the eyes of the public in Iran.
State Department officials suspect that such operations may be sponsored by one of the foundations and semiautonomous units of the Revolutionary Guards.
During the mid-1960s, the French operation of Ford sponsored a team that included the five-time Tour de France winner, Jacques Anquetil.
The Federal Communications Commission had authorized only limited commercial operation (the first sponsored television broadcasts began in 1941), and gradually stations closed down; only six were left with limited programs to serve the owners of about 10,000 sets.
Even before the loss of its Afghan base, al-Qaeda was not an organisation in a conventional sense: Mr bin Laden operated more like a venture capitalist than a CEO, sponsoring operations with varying degrees of control.
In an interview with an intelligence Web site, Lerenseignement.com, Mr. Lorho said he assumed "full responsibility" for hacking into the Greenpeace computer, but he added that "I would like to see E.D.F., which sponsored the operation, take responsibility for its part".
Three weeks after security forces uncovered the plot, stopping five trucks filled with explosives, Jordanian and American officials say, interrogations of some of the 15 men arrested suggest that the operation may have been sponsored by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist linked to Al Qaeda.
The company is now planning an aggressive expansion of its operations; it already sponsors the Championship club Blackpool, and Hearts in Scotland, but the £24m committed to Newcastle from 2013-17 wilaunchnch the Wonga name to a dramatically wider audience.
