State Dominance, Sanctions Hindering Mining Sector

A wide range of factors have hindered the growth of Iran’s mining sector, including the government dominance, the small share of private sector, lack of consistent policies and sanctions, the deputy head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture said. 
"The sector has been struggling with inconsistent policies, without taking the benefits of the private sector into account … This is while our experience of the 1990s indicated that the economy would not make any progress by relying on sectors dominated by the government," Pedram Soltani was also quoted as saying by Tccim.ir.
But the private sector has had a meager contribution to the mining sector in the past two decades, he added.