Assessment & Prioritizing financing methods suitable for the defense industry of the Islamic Republic of Iran

One of the major expenses of governments even in peacetime is the expenses of the defense and security sector, and different countries spend an important part of their public revenues for this sector. The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has allocated a part of its general budget to this issue every year. In the defense sector, strengthening the defense base is one of the most important missions, and a major part of this important mission is the responsibility of the country's defense industries. One of the important points in the development and strengthening of an industry is the sustainable financing of that industry. So far, the financing of the defense industry has been solely the responsibility of the government and it has been financed from the general budget of the government.In recent years, the government's income fluctuations and as a result of the fluctuations of the defense budget and specifically the budget for strengthening the defense base, the country's defense industries have faced challenges for some reasons. In this research, while studying financing methods in Iran and the world, after interviewing experts and implementing the Delphi method, the findings of the research were confirmed with the binomial test and the one-sample t-test, and then with Friedman's test, the best methods were ranked.