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In 2003, the Supreme Leader of the Iranian regime, Ali Khamenei, introduced a plan<\/a> titled “Iran’s 20-Year Vision” through the Expediency Council. In 2005, then-President Mohammad Khatami was officially mandated to implement the strategy, which outlined five periods of four-year terms and was supposed to be continued with Khatami\u2019s successors. The goal was for Iran to become the leading power in the economic, scientific, and technological fields in the region by the year 2025.<\/p>\n However, as of now, the clerical dictatorship has experienced significant regression in all human and social indicators. The only notable exceptions are the widening class gap, socio-political oppression, and an increase in warmongering activities in the region.<\/p>\n In these years, possessing the resources of one of the world’s wealthiest countries, successive governments diverted the capital of the Iranian people into their own pockets and those of their families. Through investments in terrorism, missile, and nuclear programs, they have impoverished Iran and thrown the Middle East into turmoil.<\/p>\n On November 19, in an article titled<\/a> “Not Becoming the Leading Power,” the state-run newspaper Hammihan declared, “As of today, after 18 years, we not only have fallen short of attaining the status of the leading power in the region, but we find ourselves searching for our place among the nations at the bottom of the list. The political changes outlined in the 20-year outlook plan have demoted Iran from its position as the primary power in the region to the lower echelons of countries.”<\/p>\n In 2013, three years prior to the discovery of his body in a luxurious swimming pool in northern Tehran, former regime president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remarked<\/a>, “Presently, you can observe the extent to which we have strayed from the envisaged plans outlined in the long-term vision document and our current situation. Our economy has contracted, our people have experienced impoverishment, and we have forfeited numerous opportunities in this regard.”<\/p>\n After years of trying to mislead both domestic and international audiences, former President Mohammad Khatami conceded<\/a> that the regime’s project had failed. He expressed, “In the current situation, achieving the goals outlined in the long-term vision document is not feasible.”<\/p>\n Classified documents confirm the #IRGCterrorists<\/a> iron grip on #Iran<\/a>'s oil revenue, further fueling economic inequality and perpetuating the regime's oppressive rule.https:\/\/t.co\/genvxrsGQJ<\/a><\/p>\n — NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) May 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n