Iran’s private sector has a simple message for policymakers: stability matters more than promises.
Hossein Pirmoazen, vice chairman of the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), argues that restoring trust and predictability to the economy is the only way to bring capital back into production, create jobs, and revive hope. Without it, investors cannot plan, and money drifts toward short-term, unproductive ventures.
His five-point roadmap: stabilize the foreign exchange market, cut red tape and ease financing, protect households’ purchasing power, launch real development projects across the country, and give the private sector a genuine voice in economic decisions.
Exchange rate volatility, rising production costs and regional tensions have made long-term planning nearly impossible, he warns. Yet Iran’s potential in energy, agriculture, industry and tourism remains vast—if it can be converted into investment.
What society needs now, Pirmoazen concludes, is not grand promises but tangible signs of stability: an expanding factory, a project breaking ground, an entrepreneur planning for next year.
His bottom line: “Let the people and economic actors predict the future.”
