Flood of Distrust, Uncertainty in Business Environment 

Devastating floods of late destroyed buildings and infrastructures across Iran, regardless of the time spent on constructing them and the degree of certainty we felt about their structural resilience. Infrastructures and buildings are redeemable but regaining people’s trust is an extremely long-drawn-out process.
Masoud Khansari, the head of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, prefaced his article for the Persian economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad with this note. A translation of the text follows:
These unwelcome events have sent a message to the people that dams, roads and even the ground they walk on cannot be trusted. Distrust and uncertainty is the same scourge that plague the country’s business environment; it is not a natural disaster; it is the outcome of misguided policies adopted in the past few decades.