You guys are losing miserably.
GDP per capita, US $:
1978
Iran - 2,168
Turkey - 1,549
2016
Iran - 4,683
Turkey - 10,743
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In 2015 Obama gave u present removing sanctions. Instead using these billions to develop ur own economy u used it to increase slaughter in Syria.
You dont understand that ur time is running out. Ur economy is based solely on export of crude oil and gas. In 20 years world will move to electric cars. Solar, wind and shale energy are also rapidly growing.
This is solar energy capacity of China in gigawatts:
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As u can see it grew from nearly zero in 2010 to over 130 Gigawatts in 2017. Note your super mega Russian nuclear plant that u spend decades and billions dollars produces 1 gigawatt.