Iran’s Chronic Economic Woes

Uncertainty has been the deadliest disease of Iran’s economy for over a century and will likely remain the staunch enemy of production and economic growth in the next decade, says Mohsen Jalalpour, former president of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, in an article published by the Persian Economic Daily Donya-e-Eqtesad. 
A translation of the text follows:
We are living through the final days of a tumultuous century; in a few days, we will enter a new century [as the new Iranian year 1401 begins on March 21]. Over all these years, one of the gravest challenges facing the Iranian economy has been the constant decline in investment.