The country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has described the dependency on oil as "a trap" dating from before Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979 and from which the country should free itself.
伊朗最高领袖阿亚图拉·赛义德·阿里·哈梅内伊（Ayatollah Ali Khamenei）称，伊朗对石油的依赖是可追溯到1979年伊朗伊斯兰革命之前的“一个陷阱”，伊朗应该摆脱这个陷阱。