What has the government done to counter the US economic war?
Member of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce: There is no denying the impact of US sanctions on the country's economy, but the question is how much the government is with the people in this war and to what extent has it prevented domestic sanctions? The government is constantly hitting industry and production.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, the new phenomenon of Iran's economy is the boredom of economic activists and producers who are the front line fighters of the economy. Experiencing such a phenomenon in any economy imposes hard days and deadly dangers on that country's economy. If the economic front line soldiers lose hope, the way will be opened for the enemy to attack and target. Therefore, supporting well-known producers and economic activists is an important issue that Abdolvahab Sahlabadi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Iran House of Industry, Mines and Commerce and Chairman of Isfahan Chamber of Commerce, addressed the economic concerns of market participants and why we are in this situation. Explained for economics radar.
In the current situation, Iran's economy is going through hard times in the economic war, hard days in the war is a natural issue, but what is outside the rules of war on the economic fighters in your opinion?
No Iranian is unaware of the current state of the country's economy. Whether this Iranian is a businessman and an economic activist, or a worker and a salaried employee, these days everyone is suffering from some kind of mismanagement and incorrect policies of the governments and the established government. The pain that the businessman and economic activist, the producer and the factory owner and the worker and the employee, to the housewife and the mother of the head of the household, refer to in different ways because they have made all people suffer from economic issues.
Iran is embroiled in an economic war over US sanctions, the consequences of which are affecting various sectors of the economy. This issue cannot be ignored, but the question is how much the government is with the people in this war and to what extent does it prevent internal sanctions? To clarify this issue, it is better to give a concrete example of what we had in the war. We are one of the rare countries that have experienced eight years of military war, a war in which the people defended the country together, all of whom were able to defeat the enemy with collective wisdom, cooperation and cooperation.
Despite the fact that the world powers provided extensive support to the Ba'athists, people in all parts of the country worked hard on hot and cold days to provide cold water, ice and hot food to the fighters. We were such a nation, these memories of these sacrifices and these unforgettable events. The warriors who fought on the fronts, after the grace of God, were happy to appease the people, but now the warriors of the economic front and the activists in the field of production do not feel sympathy, but still in the ups and downs of the economy on the battlefield They are fighting. For this reason, I said that they do not feel sympathy, cooperation and support, because the most important ministry that deals directly with the economic front, namely the Ministry of Silence, has not had a minister for several months! When an organization puts its foot in the shoes of a manufacturer and a producer, no one supports the producer, can we expect good things to happen for the production and the economy of the country? They have not given way to the producer.
What are the main demands of the real economic activists of the country in the economic war?
When all the news constantly refers to economic indiscipline, when the government does not have a solution or program to prevent financial indiscipline, when the government does not deal with the destructive factors of production and we do not hear that the necessary threats are made to those who threaten production? Can we expect the producer in the economic war to hope for continued support for the production process? Can one expect the merchant and the trader and the exporter and the producer not to have different worries? Certainly, the economic system of the country is involved in an economic war, but it cannot be successful in a war situation without discipline.
If we are in the arena of economic warfare and we are going through a critical period, like the front that has a military court, the military courts that try military offenders must apologize to all those who have damaged production and the process of economic growth. Tried. On the economic front, have the violators been tried to the extent of the damage done to the economy and the growth of production and the economic growth and development of the country, which is a lesson for others? So we are at war with ourselves, we are suffering from self-sanctions in addition to the sanctions of the enemy, it is such that its economic growth is not really recorded. Thus, financial and managerial indiscipline has paved the way for the exploitation of a small number of Iran's economy.
In your opinion, what is the most important area that has been ignored in the country's economy, the part that could have curbed the next problems?
Indiscipline. Unfortunately, we suffer from indiscipline in every way, indiscipline in the market, indiscipline in the prices of goods, goods and services, indiscipline in the percentages that become more expensive; For example, if raw materials become ten percent more expensive, the final price of the item will be more than ninety percent. Indiscipline in the production and obligatory needs of the country, indiscipline in the import or import of essential goods. Discipline in granting facilities to production or violations in the name of production. Although we know that the way to save the country's economy is to increase production, indiscipline has closed the way to the growth of production. There is no doubt that sanctions put pressure on production, but we should use the same pattern of the eight-year war, unless we had less problems at the time.
If they announced that we did not have wheat and that some city had enough wheat to send to the whole country, in less than 48 hours the whole transportation system would go to the cities where the wheat was stored in silos to load the wheat, and the people would help. ،; The people also endured the problems because the officials were with the people, but today the people are witnessing the loss of empathy and support of the officials, so they are less empathetic with each other. If the transportation system had been mobilized in 48 hours, it would have known that the wheat it takes to different cities is for all the people, it will feed the people, it will benefit the table of the people who are under pressure, but small and big mistakes against the nation. It has made everyone pessimistic about each other. Unfortunately, the authorities also cheated in the people's food. We cheated on the exchange rate and the production that is affected by the currency. Unfortunately, the officials who want to withdraw from the National Reserve Fund unnecessarily and illegally want to cheat both for the economy of the current people and for the future of the future.
How much has the fraud you mention affected our economy, and can our economic challenges stem from the fraud we have inflicted on ourselves?
In imports, in granting the same currency of 4200 Tomans, such frauds have been committed from the people's right that referring to it makes people's hearts bleed. It is not possible to name the goods that have been imported into the country with government currency, or the currency that has been imported in the name of government goods, but no goods have been imported and people's capital has been invested abroad for the benefit of some. Or the imported goods have been sold to the people at many times the price and in free currency. Unfortunately, the economic situation of the country is bad. Manufacturers and industrialists are becoming more and more out of the field every day.
The government does not support production and industry much, not this year, which was named the year of the production leap, but the production of orphans during the last seven years. Even if the government has provided support, it is equal to high-interest loans that break the producer's back. Support means reducing one concern from the producer and the labor industry every day, not adding one concern to the previous challenges every day. . Unfortunately, instead of laying the groundwork for the growth of the country's production and industry, the government is constantly hitting the industry and production with its major policies, instead of making good contributions to the growth of production.
Why has the government not been able to support production and industry? Where is the problem?
Hence, the government is reluctant to downsize. The heavy and big government, at a very high cost, constantly puts costs on the people and production. A big government that either does not have the time to identify and deal with speculators, speculators and intermediaries, or does not want to enter these areas. The problem is that the government does not support certified producers and market participants, does not support producers and economic actors who work logically and legally, or does not give them any pleasure at all. It is that our producers are in torment, while speculators and speculators and economic activists without IDs, who have high tax evasion, pocket huge profits and cripple production. Because production does not grow and the economy does not come to life, the government is not interested in the private sector working.
No official makes time for the producer or the industrialist, or has no time at all, because the banks are not interested in supporting and granting production facilities. Servant of the First Vice President, Mr. Jahangiri, I said, "Take each corner of the work so that God can help us. Let's save the country's economy by ending economic corruption and closing the grounds for any economic corruption." Unless you executed the economic corruptors at the beginning of the revolution, do not compliment any corruptors, see the people, see the eighty million Iranians, not a few. Do not have mercy on those who betray the economy, have mercy on the people who have lost their power and power through rent, hoarding and betrayal.
* Tasnim