Re: What Made My Day Today :-)

On 12/1/24 7:25 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:

   - News has it that it was "discovered" that a large number of Iran's industries that directly deal with the first phase of a number of processes involving gas, oil, agriculture, etc, are working much more slowly than they were a few years ago :)
 This far, it already says enough about how two-bit managers are working in Iran.
 Then a task force was created to investigate it. It turned out that these industries have trouble receiving nuts! Yes, bolts and nuts that they order from foreign countries...
 So the team did some more of looking and found out that all major industries in Iran that used to make these nuts and bolts of various sizes are down! ... Hahhahhahahh :) Talking about Mullah's placing their sons at those positions.
 So they investigated farther and the reason was that a few key parts in all of these machines are defective, and the European companies who used to supply them to Iran have stopped doing that.
 So the machines stopped. Nuts and bolts stopped being manufactured. And the effect of it fucked up major industries that need these nuts and bolts.
 And guess what. Nobody was even talking about this :)
 That's what happens when you involve clerics into areas of activity that should not be their business.
 This matter was reported to government and they sent their scientists and engineers to check those machines out. They literally disassembled these huge machines and studied every part of it; how they work, why certain parts don't work, and found that the design of some of them themselves were idiotic and would rapidly lead to some of their parts getting ruined.
 So instead of reproducing these parts now that EU would not sell them, they decided to redesign these machines!
 They did that, finished the job, created new machines with none of the problems that the European ones had. They began churning out any nuts and bolts ever needed, and this covered the 120 thousand tons of nuts and bolts that Iran's industries needed yearly. So all those industries began working as fast as before instead of waiting for nuts and bolts to arrive from various parts of the world.
 What hit me when I read that is that nobody even was complaining about this. It had to be indirectly "discovered" :-( Imagine how many other defects in the fabric of industry in Iran is there sitting to be "discovered." Cause sure as hell nobody talks about it.
 I think their owners aren't even in Iran. They're in California perhaps, giving ass in San Francisco, and care little about what they own in Iran. This can explain the comedy better than any other reason one could think of.
 These owners may have been Jews or Baha'is, anybody who doesn't give a hoot about any industry in Iran, be it their own industries.
 I hope by seeing the way this simple matter was discovered, the authorities will get better at finding the rest of funny situations like this and take care of them as well.
 

A similar situation, which still exists, is the matter of spare parts for European cars that are assembled in Iran. These assembler companies by the contract they have with buyers must provide spare parts for these cars, and yet they have difficulty getting them from Europeans. These deals with EU were placed years ago, in some cases decades back, and now the political situation has changed and EU car companies do not want to assume responsibility for providing spare parts. But profit is still high enough to continue supplying stuff to assemble their cars (cars in Iran, especially European cars, are extremely expensive).
Although this has created a local market for these parts, no investor is willing to risk his money on manufacturing them because the assembling contract might not last far enough in the future. Matters with EU can go downhill in one week without notice and the investors' parts company will suddenly be good for the life of the latest assembled cars only, and not more.
So buyers have sued these assembler companies and now there is a "law" forcing the assemblers to provide spare parts. So for them it is a dilemma right now. They don't know what to do.
This in turn has created obvious other problems. The prices of spare parts for these cars have skyrocketted, leading to yet another smuggling problem added to Iran's never ending smuggling issues. Also crappy parts now have popped into market (nobody knows from where) which are very bad imitations and are of low quality material and yet as expensive as the oem parts, and these parts sell too because no other options are readily available for customer. Many have their cars sitting and getting dust for months because the spare for them aren't found.
I think EU companies have been ordered to do that just to create stress among Iranians. Same people who order them to conduct never ending war in Ukraine, also press them to do this with Iran, as right now they could make good profit selling these parts.
But this issue is one of a consumer issue type, not one for countries major industries like what I described above. In fact it was in this context that the source brought out the nuts and bolts issue as an example of what government could do somewhere that it cannot do elsewhere for Iranians.