secondary analysis

To achieve the goals of resistance economy in Iran, the first step is to identify vulnerabilities that prepare ground for the enhancement of economic independence and the reduction of negative impact exerted by other countries on Iran’s economic growth. There are some important questions about resistance economy: What are the main obstacles for the realization of resistance economy in Iran? How can we identify these obstacles? With this argument that Iran’s economic vulnerabilities are most important obstacles for the realization of resistance economy in Iran, the following hypothesis is examined in this article: In recent years, Iran’s economic vulnerabilities in terms of its dependence on foreign investment in the energy sector, its dependence on oil’s exports and imports of petroleum products, especially gasoline, are major obstacles to the realization of resistance economy. This hypothesis is examined through "secondary analysis" of the data related to sanctions. By relying on secondary analysis, economic scattered data are analyzed in relation to these three issues: 1) process of changing the nature of sanctions from symbolic to practical; 2) Iran's economic situation in the three envisioned economic areas on the threshold of the aggravation of sanctions; 3) impact of sanctions on Iran. By analyzing these data, first we will show that sanctions by focusing on the three areas of Iran’s economic vulnerability have become non-symbolic and practical. Secondly, on the threshold of the aggravation of sanctions, Iran's vulnerability and dependence in these three economic areas were intensified. And thirdly, the impact of sanctions on Iran in these three areas would lead to economic pressure. According to these statistical secondary analyzes, we conclude that Iran’s weakness and vulnerability in these three areas, that are dependence on foreign investment in the energy sector and dependence on oil exports and imports of petrochemicals, constitute a major obstacle for resistance economy. So the first step to the realization of resistance economy, in the framework of a long-term strategy, is to reduce dependence on these three areas. This article, at the end, propose pragmatic suggestions for the impelementation of this strategy.

Maintaining and strengthening national unity and integrity is one of the most important priorities of all political systems, because increasing the correlation coefficient can lead to reducing internal and external threats and providing good grounds for development and progress of the country. Iran is one of the countries that by relying on its historical background and civilization can overcome on the divergence challenges, throughout centuries. So despite, the occupation of this country and abstraction of some parts of vast territory by aliens at some historical sections, in recent decades,it continued to be a powerful and independent political unit with pervasive sovereignty. National unity and solidarity have been more exposed to domestic challenges and external threats and among them, the most important domestic challenge is the activation of some social gaps at some profiles of time. This article inevitably focuses on the role of external threats in weakening national unity on domestic factors and tries to investigate the ratio of four major social gap in Iran (generation gap, gender, ethnic and religious gap)with different dimensions of national unity (religious, territorial, political, cultural, social dimensions). The used method in this article is secondary analysis method of research findings and studied period is between 2001-2011. The obtained results show that in this time period, there is no serious disagreement between two ends of spectrums oriented to social gaps about the various aspects of national unity and national convergence in Iran has benefited from a good level.