@VEVAK
The example on Irans regional influence is a issue like hejab.
The west needs defeats of Irans path, it needs changes of direction. Letting hejab down while still claiming to be the islamic republic ideology in the region or letting down support for regional allies, both are the same. It is not the time for concessions, we are at a critical stage in a brutal war.
North Korea is much weaker yes, but they are in the same existential war against the west, they hence are more closed and cautious.
Iran is stronger and can afford to let foreign reporters travel free in the country. But is Iran stronger than China to lets say remove the internet filtering?
You have liberal needs, that involve hejab and in future maybe internet filtering ect. and all those small unimportant issues are methods of the west to infiltrate and get concessions.
How about forgetting about tourism and hejab and concentrate to expand industry for our trained youth? This issue is magnitudes more important, at the moment we are losing a resource more important than oil there.
Iran can get more than tourism via a investment plan to rapidly expand petrochemical industry, young workforce and free material.
The government is quite incapable but I want to see things like Rohanis plan to produce thousands of new trucks to replace the old fleet. I don't want to see Rohani playing the tourism card like he did during the last election. Not now in a almost war condition.
Iran's domestic Hejab policy is being used against Iran across the region in Lebanon in Iraq and in Syria in all cases Iran's domestic Hejab by force policies were used against Iran and Iranian supporters.
And again you have to be delusional to think you can cut out an industry as large and as important as the Tourism industry and yet maintain an economy that can compete globally and to understand that I suggest you go compare how much foreign currency Iran brought in from exporting Natural Gas compared to how much foreign currency France, Germany, Spain, U.K., Japan, South Korea, China, Canada, Italy, Turkey,.... brought in with Tourism
You can't cut out $20 Billion USD in foreign currency from your economy because your scared of what might happen!
And yes I agree that as long as trump is in power any attempt to fix this issue and others like it should NOT go past backdoor debates, theoretical papers,... And should NOT be implemented in any practical way and there is an obvious and logical reason for that but that doesn't mean it's wrong or is an issue that Iran shouldn't be planning to address!
And allowing from some areas of Iran to be free of Hejab and other intrusive policies doesn't make Iran unislamic in fact it allows Iran to also have the La Ekraha fed deen policy that is so quite clearly written in the Quran.
And you wanna talk about fixing other aspect of Iranian Economy like what exactly? Please elaborate what product do you wanna produce what we currently aren't producing!
If Iranian TV & Radio is incapable of providing the entertainment people are looking for the result is people buying sat's dishes in the masses that directly effects marketing in Iran and that effects all products and services in the country
And I'm not talking about news channels yes that should be controlled and trust me if the only thing bad about Iranian TV & Radio was it's News no one would be bothering with buying and installing sat TV not to mention that Iranian News cannels do a far better job in reporting than western channels do!
Iran needs to have TV channels & radio stations that at the very least bring in revenue for the government in the form of Taxes and Fees not TV channels that can't even pay the salary of their employees using their own adds...
You wanna destroy Tourism industry, TV and Radio industry, Entertainment industry, Music Industry, Alcoholic Beverage industry, Marketing industry,.... And you think you can magically make up for it by producing a few Iranian made products that haven't so far been able to even compete domestically let alone globally? Come on get real! That's just absurd!
To think that Iranians that wanna watch Music videos are going to magically watch the Quran Channel because that's what on Iranian TV is DELUSIONAL
To think Iranians that drink Alcoholic beverages in a country who invented wine are somehow not going to drink wine simply because it's sale and production is banned IS DELUSIONAL
And to force Iranians to suffer economically because you fear that an increase in Tourism will result in an increase in Spy's is ABSURD because that economic hardship will be a greater motivation for the disenfranchised Iranians to become spy's!
And Zarif statement as public official working for Iran's government may have been right on point because be onna heech rabti nadareh and his jobs is to defend Iran not the other way around!
But for a privet individual to compare Iran's Hejab Policy ya Rosarry ba to sarri policy with a nude person going into the streets of Canada and being arrested for indecent exposure is beyond absurd!
But I have to say if I was in his position publicly my statement would have been no different than his!