Again, it's really hard to speak with a stupid person. You try to throw cheap non-senses and say that I hate Turkey to demonize me, instead of answering to what I said. why? because you have no proofs against what I said, and you are not grown up enough to listen to the other side in a debate.
Iran is already ahead of Turkey culturally, scientifically, ...
Economically, Turkey is drown in debt, and its currency is rapidly losing its value while she is not sanctioned, nor .... Turkish people need to work more than any other country just to be able to feed their family. Military? Are you kidding? what Turkey has? Bunch of M60? or the Leopard that turks are not allowed to use them against Kurds? Or maybe the copy of A-129 with shaky hull, which Italians abandoned its design long time ago. What about Altay which gets more close to Korean Tank by each upgrade in design, and yet they don't know what engine to use for it? Don't be ridiculous.
Again, I am sure you are going to reply by saying "You hate turkey". Pfff ... Continue living in your dream world.
rmi5 my friend... Please be soft to our friend... No need to use stupid or such words... He has an argument that Iran need to be compared with countries with the same population though I don't agree... Iran has potential easily equal to a 300 million state... Iran if take Turkey as rival never reach its potential... our IR-TR friend don't know that Iran 5 or 10 years ago is very different from today's Iran... Iran surpassed Turkey in almost every aspect but economy... the economy is not that far too... If government learns from previous mistakes and finish what they started in form of reforms then in less than 12 to 15 years Iran will be in European level of GDP...
I once explained how it is possible...
in order to reach a european level of gdp, there is only three possiblities.
1- A country became industrialized and can produce at least %20 of its GDP by industry (non-oil of course), can then focus on developing its SERVICE sector in its modern way... As soon as there is no sanctions and service sector get flourished then Iranian GDP soon will reach +30K... It is natural for an industrialized country to mature its industry first and then its service sector grwoth helps more industries and therefore more GDP... for your info all advanced nations have a GDP composition like this: Agri<%10, Industry <20-%25, Services > 70-%80
2- A country has little population so a few huge single industry can bring them +30k of GDP... Luxamburg is a good example...
3- A country has both little population and huge natural reserves: GCC states are good examples...
what rmi5 is saying about Turkey is mostly correct... not all of it..but mostly correct...Iran first put a target to be the first in every aspects in ME which is already is in most of those aspects... only Economy is lacking which is long story... I have a good face in new Iranian heading... The problems in Iranian economy has been stockpiled for nearly a century.. It takes time to find scholars tired of it and then seeing them after repairing it... Iranian economy problem was never solely economic... it was bound by both political and cultural problems too... The oil curse has no survivors but Norway... hopefully, Iran is going in the same direction... I personally thought with Iranian oil section cut off due to sanctions, Iran will be crippled which happened not...
The main problems in Iranian economy were, corruption in public sector, sanctions, lack of a national data base, not so effective taxing system, change of strategic policies as soon as governments change, a not supportive culture among people for made-in Iran... creating a link between science and tech and commercial industry...for your info, many of these problems are either fixed or on the verge of being fixed or just started to be fixed... good thing is that the leader noticed this at last and he made arrangements to keep good strategic programs in place even if the govs are changing... The best move of all are the national data base, taxing system and providing enough investment in high tech (21th century style) mostly private companies... which is almost done... I promise a constant +%5 economic growth in next decade or more if there is no war of course (which is very unlikely as I understand it from the leader perception)
When first I got informed of sceince and tech parks and its system, I was very pessimist... but the more I am informed the more I came to realize that Iran is firm on this one... Those who remember the "Tarh haye zood bazdeh" program know well that billions of dollar spent on it with little results... but this time, I see that gov and leader support you not matter what it takes.... I talked to a person in one of these parks board of decision... He said, this new system is not bound to gov change and will be supported directly by leader... He said, if you have anything high tech in mind, then these parks will give you a 99 year land, give you free infra, internet, telephone, labs, amenities and consultants for a year or two depending on the scale of your project, then after this period they will investigate if you could produce intended product, then they will give you an interest-free loan to make it commercial and marketing support.... I promise you that this single program will revolutionize Iranian economy in a decade...
Iran after surpassing ME is now have an eye on Europe,.. you can clearly see this in both public and private sector words... but how this end up in more results have many "IF"s ....
I was under the same influence that Turkey is becoming a role model let's say 10 year ago... then the more I engaged with them through my trips the more I cam to the point that Turkey is not only ahead but lacking behind Iran in many aspects... now, I can tell openly that Iran is miles ahead of Turkey in at least 8 out of 10 sectors...
The way Iran treats Kurds, Sunnis, jews, regional issues is way better than Turkey and I can assure you of that... but sure Turkey has better social freedom (by social I don't mean press freedom which is very bad but only freedom to wear, drink or go to discos) but social freedom is not the only thing that makes a country a better state...
Meaning no help. Like in the US
remember US government bail out after recent economic crisis in US? Help them in the process or after they fail...what's the difference?