Within the next six or seven years, the investors will have reimbursed their original investment and the equipment, resources and revenues earned by them will return to us. In addition, the presence of countries like Russia and France in the Persian Gulf will strengthen the security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. With God's blessings, we must undertake fundamental rebuilding of this country so that there will be neither inflation and high prices, nor unemployment and underemployment in the long run, instead of merely administering short-ter 'sedatives' to our economy. And this can be done with efforts on the part of our great people, and especially with the help of the private sector. We are currently examining our state-owned companies to decide which are essential and vital for the economy and should, therefore, remain under government control and which can be turned over to the private sector.
Any investor naturally expects to make a profit.
We must, therefore, provide the necessary security and guarantees so that they will be willing to invest. On the other hand, we must devise the mechanism for receiving from them the rightful share of the people and the which may be done by employing devises such as taxation, levying tariffs and customs and so on. Today, unemployment is one of the most important problems faced by our society. That is, from the time Iran appeared on the face of the earth to this day, which, in your words, is its peak of development, only fifteen million jobs have been created. Needless to say that our economic resources are not unlimited, and we must, therefore, seek ways of improving our economic performance.