Dude your just trying to find excuses to hate Rouhani. Yeah we get it, his administration has not been successful. However you cannot blame everything on Rouhani. Iran is isolated because Iran is not willing to be a slave, so it really doesn't matter who is leading Iran, west and east will always want to keep Iran weak.
Please point me to one of these services! I was honestly not aware of it. Naturally it should become more expensive but at least that is a way to avoid the sanctions.
In terms of payment, from my experience, the top journals (nature being best and most expensive) take payment from the authors AND/OR the reader. Many top notch open access journals (who don't charge the readers) take tons more payment from the authors to cover their cost. I am personally not aware of truly top journals with high rankning who are truly free. Again please point me to those if that is the case.
Dude, why do you think I am criticizing his administration because I hate him? For the record, I do hate him, but Rouhani installed General Sattari's son (Surena Sattari) as the Head of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology. Surena Sattari said that he did not believe in academic publishing and he believed that Iran should instead invest in innovation and patents. He was very critical of Ahmadinejad's policy in promoting academic publishing. 7 years later, not only Iran has lost its status in academic publishing, our number of patents and innovations hasn't changed much, even less than how much it changed during Ahmadinejad's presidency. So, it's about facts rather than hating Rouhani.
Check
https://www.sharifvisa.ir for example. There are many other services like them. If anything, transferring money from Iran
to foreign countries has become easier than 2009.
Usually academic journals have two methods of running the journal: 1- subscription based journals try to cover the costs of running it by charging the readers, 2- open access journals charge the authors because their articles will be disseminated to a wider audience than a subscription journal.
Most reputable journals prefer the first system, and try to avoid charging the authors unless in special cases like when the article has too many pages, or the authors require additional hard copies of the journal, or when the quality of publishing matters in disciplines like astronomy, etc. Iran itself has over 100 journals in Scopus, of which about 90% are open-access journals that do not charge the authors for anything. Iran has about 100 journals in Web of Science as well (mostly in SCIE and ESCI). Again, most of those journals are open-access journals that do not charge their authors.
