Iran's administration negligent toward private sector, political parties

TEHRAN, July 21 (MNA) – Islamic Coalition Party Secretary General Mohammad-Nabi Habibi has said that the administration has been negligent toward the private sector and political parties.

The Ahmadinejad administration has not made any major achievement in removing the obstacles that keep the private sector from flourishing, Habibi told the Mehr News Agency in an interview published on Tuesday.

There is an apparent discrepancy between the administration’s performance with regard to promoting the economic status of the private sector and what was previously expected the administration would do, he noted.

Habibi believes that the cost of running party activities have soared over the past years, and blames the administration for it.

During his first term in office, president Ahmadinejad said that he approved of factional pluralism in principle, he said.

However, the president himself has often made remarks undermining different factions, he added.

Asked about the priorities of the principlist movement, Habibi pointed to cultural and economic issues as major concerns of the movement at present.