Serpentine
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Only being a big country is not enough.We do have huge natural resources,but what if we have problems selling them or receiving the money of the oil we sell?What if we can't give contracts to huge oil companies to develop our oil fields much faster?What if we can't receive our money in dollars,Euro and instead have to sell products from country well oil to?Iran is a big country its produces enough food grains to feed her population, it has huge natural resources at its disposal. Its land mass and population is huge in terms of Middle Eastern region and with its size it can & will find a way to thwart any sanction. Though sanctions have big toll on economy and development yet, not as big to crumble the country.
I'm not defending our economy progress before these serious sanctions, because it wasn't that great.But it was good somehow,especially in Khatami era, which Iran had 7% growth rate annually in average.But you can't say sanctions don't have any effect on us,no matter how much resources we have.
It's like having 4 tons of gold in your house, but you can barely sell slightest parts of it.What's the benefit?
Actually i wanted to know the source of your 80% mark. IMHO the term Secular is most used & abused (even Holyoke the man who coined this world would repent on that) The "Secular Muslim" is unsubstantiated terminology and used for convenience.
pardon me for that 4% gap,I wasn't so sure about the number when I posted that comment.But for me,76% and 80% is not a big deal.