Since some years ago a number of Iranian leaders had declared their intention follow ‎China’s approach to human rights and through it, justify Iran’s violations of the same.‎

But with o er thirty years of the Chinese model, Iran with a population that is nowhere ‎close to that of China’s, has not succeeded in transforming its oil-based economy into a ‎production economy or through employment strategies and relaxation of tension in is ‎foreign policy achieve lasting independence or a durable economic development such as ‎that of China.‎

Among Iranian authorities, the China model has been defined in terms of the latter’s ‎gross violations of human rights and not its economic strategies, movement towards free ‎markets and international relaxation of tensions.‎

One cannot justify political blunders by simply looking at one rejected aspect of this ‎model. One one hand China has created an extensive political and business relations with ‎the United States despite its deep ideological differences with it while on the other it has ‎opted to pursue its trade interests and welfare of its people rather than engage in childish ‎political games.‎

The Iranian government on the other hand claims to be pursuing the Chinese model while ‎insisting on having tension with the international community, engaging in limited trade ‎and economic relations with the world. These policies have led to diminishing foreign ‎investment in Iran while economic activity inside the country is struggling with ‎insurmountable problems.‎

But for Iran, China has only been a model regarding human rights, while not modeling ‎the latter’s foreign policy and other prudent approaches. Iran has not used China’s ‎examples in creating jobs for its vast population.‎

In general, I wish the Iranian government would recognize that China’s model is not the ‎most suitable model for growth and development in today’s world, and that if a model ‎was to be chosen advanced countries in the free world offer better paradigms. But despite ‎that, if this regime wants to use the Chinese model, then it should look at all the complex ‎aspects of this archetype and study them and not only its approaches that battle ‎democracy!‎