Economy of iran

Sectors	U.S. (1995– )	E.U. (2007– )
U.N. (2006–16)
Missile/arms industry	Restricted	Restricted	Removed
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps	Restricted	Restricted	Removed
Nuclear industry	Restricted	Restricted	Removed
Energy/petroleum industry	Restricted	Restricted	Removed
Banking	Restricted	Restricted	Removed
Central Bank of Iran	Restricted	Restricted	Removed
Shipping industry	Restricted	Restricted	Removed
International trade	Restricted	Restricted	Removed
Insurance	Restricted	Restricted	Removed
Foreign firms dealing with Iran	Restricted

Table 1

As we can see the table, the sanctions apart from banning all the important sections of the economy, are having a serious impact on healthcare and education systems of the country, due to lack of necessary medicine, healthcare-technologies, foreign experts on medicine and education. For example, the nation is suffering from shortages of drugs used for healing more than 30 serious illnesses such as heart and breathing issues, cancer, thalassemia due to ban on international payments for them. In a word, with its natural resources and scientific capabilities as mentioned earlier in this report, Iran would have grown far better without sanctions (of course there are valid reasons for them to be imposed), a huge burden on a country for about four decades.


Solution for Negatives of Religious Foundations. (Solution 1). Firstly, we will briefly analyze the main reasons behind the problem and solutions will follow. The first core reason is that they are semi-state organizations and being exempted from taxes and accounting audit by Central Bank, they only report directly to Supreme Leader of Iran. So obviously, these is the main point where those organizations are bypassing any power that could reveal the “black sides of their actions”. Therefore, the first action would be transforming them to public organizations and setting requirements for financial audits as equally as other private businesses.
The second step would be reducing the number of organization and falling their operations under a single government branch or authority, since currently, more than 100 Bunyads operating individually make it tough for the government or other responsible authorities to detect the inappropriate channeling of funds.
The third point is that, government’s 30% spending goes for funds of those religious organizations, which creates unequal competition in terms of budget, because, as the private sector of the country is relatively weak due to the centralized and state-owned economic regime. Therefore, the next and very important step would be limiting the fund for them and instead like many other Islamic countries, Iran government, through local authorities, could directly channel funds to the poor to some extent.