They go to pay sanction fees … which I guess is around 10-2o grand$ and fly over some officials with accommodation & I am sure to make the show more popular they pay top guys just to do the show like what happens in some of the grand prixs
In the early days (i think late 80s and early 90s) the wieder use to ask for US$100,000 as sancgtion from the arab countrues (despite the actual sanctions and what they charged other countries was 10,000) casue they thought that as long as they have oil they will pay … that is y not show was held earlier