We need to take local goods abroad as much as we can.
Fatima Nasiri.
Arbab Kishuru Shahrakh was one of the prominent representatives of the Zoroastrians in the National Assembly and one of the influential economic and social figures of the late Qajar and early Pahlavi periods. In one of the meetings of the National Council he said against the export tax:
"Mr. Iqbal al-Sultan himself explained here and estimated that seven hundred thousand tumans of katira go abroad a year. It is about seven hundred thousand eights of money obtained from the waste of that unfortunate subject who took this pot. What did the government do, what did it encourage and promote? If this poor Katira will impose land on this people, if they want to tax the people. It is owned by a subject and he pays a separate tax, and the government has no right to impose a tax on him, and if it is in the mountains, the government has no water and land and has not spent money, it wants to take away the right from him.
I want to say that we should provide a means of public encouragement even if possible. We must tell the subjects to extract whatever you want and export whatever goods you can from the country and send them abroad. I said that day about the carpet issue, if it's wrong again, I'll say it now.
If we can transfer the ashes of our country abroad as part of our exports and bring silver and gold in return, that would be very good. We need to export our local wealth as much as we can and bring in money.
Now the government is promoting exports, this is his proposal, what else does he want from these unfortunate subjects? Let them mine freely and take it abroad and bring gold in return and compensate our economic loss. "Unfortunately, instead of preventing this economic suffering and this dangerous economic situation, we are pushing ourselves towards destruction."
The official channel of Donya Akhtaz newspaper.