Ahmedinejad i drugi tvrdolinijaši u Iranu imaju finansijsku motivaciju da zatvore zemlju za trgovinu, iako se nuklearni i raketni programi u svom funkcioniranju i dalje oslanjaju na zapadnu tehnologiju.
Ahmedinejad and other hardliners in Iran have a financial incentive to close the country to trade, even though the nuclear and missile programmes remain reliant on Western technology for their operation.