A look at the "Iran 2035" report and the importance of society's human, cultural and social capabilities for progress.
Nyusha Tabibi, journalist: In studies of development and evaluation of indicators, what often causes the results to move away from the reality of society is reliance on numerical data only. Of course, the tools of macro management and planning for economic growth and providing for people and a thousand other mysterious subjects are statistics, numbers and quantitative measurements, but Iran is more than a political-economic unit, it is a cultural concept that has managed to continue its continuous life after thousands of years of crisis and conflict.
The so-called "short-term society" in the works of some political and historical experts in describing Iran is not enough to explain some of the reasons for its continued social life.
Important factors played a role in the further establishment of Iran, which cannot be measured and converted into numbers and mathematical concepts. Family, religion and religion, shared traditions of Iranian peoples, economic and religious institutions, ways of transmitting indigenous knowledge and the common language between Iranian peoples, namely Persian, were among the many elements that played a role in the continuity of the cultural and social life of the inhabitants of this land long ago.
This continuity collapsed and faded many times in the political arena, but its civilizational, cultural and social life was not interrupted.
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