No. of Recommendations: 6
More advanced than I expected.
Iran's not some de-industrialized country. Sure, they're not in the league of the OECD economies, of course - and they're certainly not leading the pack on per-capita output. But they still have a fair amount of industrial and heavy manufacturing output. For example, they're one of the larger auto manufacturing countries in the world. Not in the top 10, but in the top 20, producing about a million cars per year. It's not like they don't have lots of people in their industrial sector who know how to design and manufacture electronic components - or how to build manufacturing facilities to replace the ones that were blown up.
