TEHRAN -- Supreme Audit Court Director (SEC) Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli has criticized slow pace of development and insatiable consumption of natural resources especially oil.

It is really “shameful” for the country to import even vegetables like onion and garlic from other countries, Fazli said on Wednesday in a conference.
“Does producing and planting vegetables require a highly sophisticated technology?” the SEC director asked.
Elsewhere, he said, “It is not reasonable for the country to insatiably consume oil revenues yet the government pays subsidies for gasoline, fertilizer, and human resources to plant vegetables like orange, garlic, onion and ….”
“Today what is considered as wealth of a state is the ability of a country to produce various goods and commodities… Iran is a poor country from the standpoint that it is unable to enhance its assets and properly take use of its abundant human resources,” he lamented.
He added the fourth development plan (2005-10) projected a growth of 8 percent but unfortunately the country failed to reach that objective for different reasons, Fazli continued