They are stronger than Iran, per capita, in science and technologies. Without any doubt, in the case of non petro states. In case of petro states, some doubts exist.
Wrong.
Most of them are leaders in their respective sectors except the petro states.
Meanwhile Iran is nowhere close to leadership in any single sector in per capita terms or in total either. Stop your fantasies.
I remember discussing with these brainwashed people.
Completely brainwashed by propaganda. In reality, their high quality publications in science and technology do not even match the publications output of a Singapore or Switzerland, so they puff up numbers by publishing lots of troll posts and low quality publications. They have no high quality high technology company or high tech exports.
A simple example. They are unable to explore and develop their own oil and gas fields, which they are the fourth and 2nd largest owners of, I think. That is how primitive they are. Western sanctions or no sanctions, if they had the capabilities, they surely would not have waited for foreign investments in these sectors for much needed technologies.
All of them, barring petro states perhaps, are amongst the world leaders in science and technology, per capita.
By any neutral index of achievement or performance.
Iran is nowhere in sight in any neutral non-Wilayah al Faqih index, in per capita terms, or total.
Arab petro states are only doing better as much as the Western states permit them.
Arab petro states are severely lacking in scientific expertise, technological acumen, sophistical industrial and service sectors. This is not the case for the non petro states with high per capita economic numbers, or scientific or technologic numbers.
Iran is foolishly working against the West given its lower scientific and technological expertise and lower talent pool. It is just a fact not intended to insult. Iran with its population of 80 million and IQ lower than 97 has no chance of fighting or tackling Western interests in its region for the next 2000 years perhaps.
China, by the way, can do so because it has a population of 1300 million people at IQ of around 105. And China had successful role models and expert advice, transfer of technology, management expertise, planning, training and such from its brothers and sisters and cousins in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan.
Does Saudi Arabia, Russia, India, Iran, Turkey or Azerbaijan have such mentors ready to lend a guiding hand?
They can not make the right decision, after all, average IQ is lower. Same is true for Arabs and Kurds and Turks and Hindus, Jews and Africans, by the way.
China is an ancient civilization by itself held back by corrupt and incompetent communist party officials who often flee abroad with their loot for a greener pasture. Otherwise, Napoleon was right: once the giant rises, the world shall tremble.
Iran or Turkey should try to be equal to Spain at maximum. I think, for them, that would be a great achievement. Or maybe South Korea as well, if they can, that would be good too.
He is just angry his country is not strong enough to bomb Iran as it wishes.
Iran should be compared to North Korea, Burma, Cuba, Venezuela. Clearly, Iran was not a star performer but not that bad performer either. Better than Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Morocco anyday. If it had the same access to Western markets, expertise, technologies that China enjoyed for 4 decades or that Arabs Hindus and Turks enjoy, sure it could have been a much more improved country.
We see that it is trying to improve itself nowadays which is always good news. I see no reason why more Airbus sales would be bad.
It has to do with exchange rates.