Yeah but engines require a LARGE manufacturing base......And it would require a large amount of investment.
I think Pakistan should buy Iranian helis, if not for war purpose than for civil, rescue, patrolling and hobby purpose. Hopefully they should cost much less than western counter parts. Infect, Pakistan should join hands and go for joint ventures. They will definitely be better and advance than refurbished classics.
I assume power plant would be a basic gas turbine and the critical part of turbine performance is its blades and I believe one can buy turbine blades in open market.
Of course when we talk about Jet engines for fighters it is different concept. Performance like `supercruse` needs much different turbine blades which are definitely not available from Dubai.
All I can tell you that Irans basic industry and services sector is fully developed, I must admit that much more than Pakistan and sanctions cannot hurt them, they can very well survive on their own.
Women work shoulder to shoulder with men and there is no shortage of PhD and foreign qualified people. There is also talent at lower level.
Investment will never be a problem for Iranian govt. the only problem with Iran; I see is that it is not so open to foreigners. If they wish they can hire specialists from Europe and Asia but I assume they dont feel the necessity to do so. Every day flights from Europe full of foreigners land in Tehran and most of them come there for business reasons.
They have no shortage of food, land and energy. Infect, Iranian country side is beautiful and also their beaches. They are demonized by the western world otherwise it deserves to be the top tourist destination in world. Just before the nuclear row, Iran was at the brink of revolution but smart policy makers from US have change the whole story and now the whole nation stand united behind the rouge regime.
I recommend to keyser that you should have your next holidays in Caspian Sea; its not so far away from Tehran any way.