Souri: Our main income came from trade and agriculture.
The level of economic well-being of our people during the Qajar period and before was not high.
We fell behind in the global race for industrialization.
Before oil, we were truly a low-income country.
Perhaps if the growth trend of the 1940s had continued and we had not become an oil-rich country in the 1950s, our situation would have been better.
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