Sanctions and Resistive Economy

Despite intense sanctions by western powers against Iran, resistance culture served as the foreground and backbone of resistive economy, to overcome the obstacles to growth and development of the country and bring to fruitionthe capabilities of the country, despite the damages inflicted on the country. Resistive economy approach accentuatesendogenous economy, reliance on domestic resources, use of all capacities of the country, and reduction of dependenceon oil revenues. The main rubrics of this approach include support of Iranian capital, labor and production, enforcementof the policies of Article 44 on transfer of economic affairs to the public, recognition of the elite, taking the advantage of state-of-the-art technologies and development of knowledge-based economy. Naturally, seeking this economypresupposes overcoming challenges in different areas; The most influential factors facilitating the entry into resistiveeconomy include the increase in labor productivity, the efficiency of the tax system, making agile the government andthe bureaucracy, organizing the currency market, removing barriers to production and business start-up, supportingknowledge-based companies, providing commodities for manufacturing sector, reducing the rate of inflation, enabling the different economic sectors, supporting foreign investment in various sectors of the economy and not necessarily oil and gas industries, enabling support, insurance, monetary and banking systems as well as strengthening the resistance culture.

Sanctions and Resistive Economy Keywords:

resistance culture , economic sanctions , economic strength , Article 44 policies , state-of-the-art technologies