Speaking to ILNA, Nezam-Mafi pointed to the loom of stagflation on Iran’s economy, adding that stagflation reduces the purchasing power of the country, adding that Iran’s inflation is a hitter one and it means it rises some percentage without having any tool for its control while economy and capital need serenity in the market for progress and if there is no stability, one cannot expect the stagflation to be controlled in any part of the world.

He then pointed to some risks that Iran’s industry is struggling with them, adding that purchasing power of the people has reached a point that domestic production is not so important because with the decline in the purchasing power, the people lose possibility for buying goods and today’s inflation in the country is not simple and it has turned into a complicated issue.

He described capital as a coward creature, adding that capital goes to a safe place and unfortunately Iran’s economic security is not as much as of its equal countries. He added for example countries like Mexico, South Africa and Malaysia have much more stability in their economies and therefore capital tends to go to those countries and currently Iran’s economy has been directed towards a destination that even we cannot compare it with Turkey and South Korea and they are in much better condition than us.

Pointing to the ways of providing basic goods in the sanctions era, he said that basic goods are two types: one is that the society can live their lives without them and the second one is that their shortage creates problems in the society, adding that he thinks in the near future the country will see problem in importing basic goods especially grain because the country has not faced such a condition even during the Iraqi-imposed war when it was able to provide its needs but today the main issue is not only provision of basic goods but the society needs to grow and has production and exports and make progresses in terms of innovation in the industry.

Nezamm Mafi noted that it seems in the near future the country to face sanctions from EU and especially from Germany and France and the issue of sanctions will affect type of Iran’s economic relation with Europe.

Emphasizing the decline in the number of patenting inventions, he said that this is  a reality that elites are leaving the country and the number of graduates from the top universities of the country do not like to stay in the country and this will affect the economy in future and some may think this is not an important issue that elites are leaving the country but in the long term it will have its own impacts on the society and economy and will reduce the competitiveness of the country in the international scene.

He admitted that the Central Bank statistics show that the country is struggling with the stagflation and to get out of this condition is not so much difficult because the private and the state sectors know how to pass these crises.

Nezam Mafi went on to say that the volume of produced goods in Iran can be offered in the neighboring states but Iran cannot declare itself as an exporting country while Turkey can claim it. He stated that Turkey’s government  supports exporters and gives subsidies to exporter enterprises but this is not possible in Iran, adding that export is not main economic issue in the country although the country has seen progresses in recent years.

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During the last decade, compared to a decade earlier, student migration has had a steady trend, Bahram Salavati, head of Iran Migration Observatory said.

“In the meantime, over the past three years, due to the policies of the former U.S. president, the increase in the exchange rate and the prevalence of coronavirus pandemic, student migration to foreign countries has stopped or in many cases has decreased sharply,” he stated.

Accordingly, the student migration rate in this decade has been estimated at 50,000 people, while during the previous decade, reached 50,000 people with a significant slope of 100 percent increase, he noted.

He went on to say that since 2000, 17,000 students migrated abroad per year, in 2008, the rate increased to 33,000 people, which almost doubled, IRNA reported on Sunday.

Emphasizing that from 2008 to 2012, migration of students reached 50,000 a year, he said that from 2012-2018, it stood almost at the same rate of 50,000 students.

According to available statistics, the main destinations of Iranian immigrant students are primarily the United States, followed by Canada, Turkey, Germany, and Italy.

Iran also implemented a plan to return elites from the top 100 universities in the world, through the national model, the facilities are provided for their return, by creating technology parks, innovation centers, and factories.

The plan was able to bring back 2,000 Iranian students from the top 100 universities in the world over a three-year period, amounting to 600 people a year.

“Despite U.S. sanctions, Iran achieved scientific growth, and with the help of the technology ecosystem and domestic scientists, we were able to become one of the top countries in the field of technology in the region,” Vice President for Science and Technology Sourena Sattari said in January.

500 top researchers back home in 4 years

About 500 Iranian researchers have returned home over the past four years to transfer their knowledge and expertise to the country’s universities, according to the vice presidency for science and technology.

With the support of the National Elites Foundation and Science and Technology Vice Presidency, universities, knowledge enterprises, technology parks, and incubators launched a plan titled ‘cooperation with Iranian expatriate entrepreneurs and elite’ in 2015.

The plan aims to attract Iranians abroad to share knowledge in different forms including postdoctoral research, research opportunity, and visiting fellows, in addition to being faculty members.

So far, it has attracted more than 500 prominent Iranian researchers living in other countries as faculty members of the country’s top universities, which has had a significant impact on raising the quality of research, educational and international activities of universities.

Due to the outbreak of coronavirus, the return of elites to the country decreased in the first 5 months of last year, however, more than 300 graduates of the top 200 universities in the world came back to cooperate with domestic science and technology centers, which is almost double compared to a year before.

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 Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei received more than a thousand young elites and top scientific talents on Wednesday.

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The book “Birth of Iranian Modernism” has recently been released by Nazar Publications.

Visual Arts Office director Majid Mollanoruzi and Nazar Publications director Mahmudreza Bahmanpur also attended a ceremony organized at the Fereshteh branch of the Book City Institute in Tehran to unveil the book.

Pointing to the shortage of theories on Iranian art, Sami-Azar said that modern art in Iran has presented great achievements over the past five decades and added the continuity in the attainments requires the reinforcement of theoretical knowledge.

“I have personally heard that art in Iran has been famous in the world but lacks good theoretical knowledge, and that the number of books reviewing art in Iran has been just a few,” he told the participants.

“This was the source of inspiration for me to write different articles, which gave birth to this book,” said Sami-Azar who was the former director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

Bahman Mohasses, Hossein Kazemi, Masud Arabshahi and Abolasem Saeidi, are among the 15 artists introduced in the book.

Sami-Azar said that the book is not a history of art; rather, it directly reviews the artists and their works.

“I have some good reasons which indicate that the efforts for modernizing art in Iran have been fruitful and we can properly talk about the obvious modernism in the artworks,” he concluded.

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