Presenting a model of how sanctions affect the investment chain until the exploitation of Iran's oil industry using the Grounded Theory

The imposition and intensification of unilateral US sanctions against our country require us to recognize how this sanction affects and what makes their effects intensify. In this research after studying the available researches by grounded theory method and analyzing the context of the books, articles, analytical news, etc., the paradigm model that transfers sanctions effect on oil and oil products export and oil revenues are extracted. Results show that causal factors that come from sanctions such as decreasing foreign investment in the oil industry and oil products, problems in the sale, export, and import of oil and oil products, increase in the cost of producing and development, and leaving projects by foreign companies due to basically situations such as technological dependence to new technology discovering, lack of using scientific elites, underdevelopment of producing oil products with high value-added, etc. make that sanctions affect a lot on the Iranian oil industry.