Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 14 /Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/
Politics and economy spheres in Iran have fallen into hands of inexperienced people, Chairman of the Expediency Council, former Iranian president Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani said, ILNA reported.
Rafsanjani made the remarks at the meeting with board members of Iran's exporters association, engineering and energy industries of Iran.
"If the 4th and 5th economic plans in Iran have been handled differently, we wouldn't have been behind some of our neighboring countries," Rafsanjani said. "We wouldn't be embarrassed."
Iran's ex president said people go out on the streets, chanting meaningless economy-supporting slogans, when money are simply being put into people's pockets.
"Iran's economy needs to be protected, the money should be invested into industrial and economic sectors," Rafsanjani underscored, adding that through job creation entrepreneurs should be supported.
He went on by saying what Iran's biggest problem is.
"The root of all problems in Iran is that poorly informed people in the community either go extreme, or retreat too much. As a result of this, inexperienced people have taken over Iran's politics and economy," Rafsanjani said.
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that the International pressure applied on Iran is being made to prevent country's progress.
The United States slapped new sanctions on Iran on Thursday, targeting a handful of companies and individuals it says are providing materials and technology to Tehran's nuclear program.
Due to heavy impact of the sanctions, Iran is having its share of problems with imports, exports and has been losing money from its oil revenues.
The sanctions announced Thursday by the U.S. State and Treasury departments came the same day U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors wrapped up one-day talks in Iran over its nuclear program, widely suspected by the United States and other Western nations as a front for the country's development of nuclear weapons - a charge Iran has repeatedly denied.