Nobody has claimed that. But Iran does have significant manufacturing capability. While some may have exaggerated their capabilities, you are also exaggerating their lack of capability to make pot shots against them.
Yes, if you want to be something like USA or China. That's not whatr they are trying to be. But whatever they are trying to be, for that they have enough money, good Unis and graduates/scientists to pull it off. A comparison of Iran's strategic position vis-a-vis Arabs between 1990 and 2022 is clearly visible, they gained. The proof is in the pudding.
This is not true. Iran is far ahead of any of the Arab countries in capabilities except the weapons and tech the Arab countries import. But imports don't count in this comparison.
Not at all. First of all it was EXTREMELY evident for any remotely intelligent person or person familiar with the ground realities of Iran (a poor country with poor infrastructure and no meaningful high-tech exports of any kind or real industrial base), that it is impossible for Iran to make all those claimed weapons on their own.
Now the truth has finally been exposed as nothing else than intellectual property theft, cheap assembly lines and rebranding US/Russian/North Korean weapons as Iranian by giving those weapons mostly Arabic names and unveiling them in front of a bunch of bearded IRGC officials and Mullah's with black and white turbans.
Meanwhile throughout this entire time we have had almost every Iranian user on PDF vehmently denying the ground realities and claiming that those are all 100% Iranian inventions.
So no, I am not being harsh. This would not have been an issue if the Iranian Mullah regime and their supporters were not shamelessly lying in front of the entire world. Time and time again.
They still claim that their religious police did not murder that 22 year old women. They still claim that some 50 Iranians have died in the past 2 months of protests despite 100's having brutally been murdered if not many more, internet being cut etc.
They have ZERO credibility as do their supporters.
They have not gained anything. What have they gained? KSA alone have higher ranked universities and more more research papers and R&D done per capita than Iran, let alone the combined Arab world.
Shia Arab gains = Iran in which universe does the math make sense? Houthis are Shia Zaydi Yemenis. They have nothing to do with Iran other than Iran smuggling some North Korean and US tech (drones) to Yemen. Similarly with Hezbollah (Lebanese Shia Arabs) or Iraqi Shia Arabs. Those are internal Arab conflicts that have nothing to do with Iran in their nature other than Iran fuelling the conflicts for their geopolitical interests.
And what are you even talking about? In 1990, let us just use KSA as an example, despite having 2.5 times fewer people, in 1990 KSA and Iran economic size was far more similar, than it is today, where the difference is 4 times in favour of KSA. Hence KSA being a G-20 member state and Iran not.
No, they are not. KSA and UAE have more to show for as of 2022 let alone other Arab states. There are no competition. Iran barely has any standing army. The only thing they have are North Korean missiles and US drones. They have a joke navy and a joke air force. Tiny GCC states such as Qatar have more impressive firepower. They even have Chinese missiles with a greater reach than Iran's North Korean missiles.
Anyway you are the same person that is obsessed about Arabs, claims that the Iranian regime is a better regime to live under than wealthy GCC states (despite those GCC states being flooded by migrants from the West, East, South, North, every corner of the globe) and nobody other than the most desperate of peoples (Hazara Afghans) migrating to Iran. You still defend the annual massacres by the Mullah regime where they murder some 500-1000 people of their own for just protesting. Trying to equate that with GCC countries where protests don't even occur (no reason for widespread discontent) and when they do, are not violently combatted in such a brutal way.
And the funniest thing is that you think that Arabs are more racist against Bangladeshis than Iranians are/would be if millions of Bangladeshis lived in Iran. Oh, boy, you are in for a surprise in an ugly way. I suggest visiting the Iranian section and see how they talk about South Asians in general and what words they use. Do the same thing with the Arab section.
You are really deluded.