In 2019, Iranian President Rouhani presented a draft state budget of some $39 billion to parliament, designed to limit dependence on oil exports, in resisting US sanctions.
Iran has not been left with much of a choice, although this country had made its choice well before it was hit by sanctions.
Two and a half million barrels of crude exports in April 2018 have been reduced to a floating 200,000 barrels per day, since the US reimposed sanctions a month later in May 2018.
But Iran has had the vision of breaking free from the hold of oil as a raw commodity for decades.