Iran: Section 1 - Data

摘要

1. Iran continues to invest in homegrown defense products and, due to new, tougher, U.N. sanctions, this focus on domestic military technologies and their development has only intensified 2. Hope remains that an agreement can be reached that is satisfactory to both Iran and the five-plus-one (P5+1) major powers regarding the country's disputed nuclear program 3. A report released by the International Monetary Fund in April 2014 indicated that Iran had begun experiencing modest economic recovery and conservatively estimates that Iran's economy will expand by 1-2 percent in the 2014/15 fiscal year.