The head of Iranian Privatization Organization (IPO) explained about the obstacles of the state transfers, during the past years.

Pointing out that it passed 9 years of notification of paragraph C of principle 44, Puri Hussaini said: “In some cases of implementation of the privatization in the country, there were damages and failures. One of them is liberating and making the activities competitive, but the markets didn’t become competitive. So we can’t assert that privatization in the country has been implemented perfectly.”
Indicating that the government is responsible for strengthening private sector, Puri Hussaini stated: “In these years, the private sector hasn’t grow accompany with the privatizations, so we can’t perform large privatizations.”
Head of IPO added: “Debts rejected of state to creditors is another problem of privatization in the previous governments. Accordingly, IPO is obliged to divest directly as debts rejected of state to the other organizations which it can be described as one of the serious damages in the process of privatization, particularly in the last two years of the 10th government.”
He also called severe resistance in the body of the various governments, one of the permanent damages of privatization and said: “Some of the state managers don't like losing their interests in the government organizations, so they resist against privatizations.”