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Post-War
Reconstruction in Iran
The post-war era will
witness a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up
during the wartime conditions. The country's political,
industrial, agricultural, and social combinations are being
totally reorin the ongoing reconstruction effort.
Condemnation of Iraq as the aggressor, prepared the way for Iran
to make a spectacular entrance onto the international stage. In
compliance with the implementation of the First and the Second
Five-Year Development Plans, remarkable increases are being
achieved in the production of raw materials, manufacture and
export of industrial goods and handicrafts, as well as the
acceleration of heavy industry towards maturity. Iran is also
expanding sales of manufactured goods to Asian, African, and other
international markets. Despite the fact that the country's
population has nearly doubled during the last 15 years, Iran is
already exporting many of its agricultural products, while
reducing imports of some essential goods.
Setbacks caused by the Iraqi imposed war are serving only as a
spur to redouble the nation's efforts by diversifying the heavy
industry into machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Most of the previously government-owned factories are being sold
to private shareholders. Thus a dynamism has appeared in the
country's free enterprise system which is due in no small way to
the government's generous support for private industry. Help takes
the form of tax advantages and exemptions, loan facilities,
subsidies, and high import tariffs on competitive foreign goods.
At the same time, top priority is being given to the modernization
of Iran's admittedly underdeveloped rural economy -by any
effective means. This has opened the wav for major scientific,
technological, and commercial exchanges with the rest of the
world.
In this short account of Iranian history, the subject was not
treated from the beginning and we didn't go into details -which
would require a dozen of volumes at least. There are many other
aspects of Iranian civilization that you as the foreign tourist
will discover for yourself -when you are here in Iran.
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