The State of Iran's Economy in the Global Value Chain (1979 – 2018)

In the coming decades, global competition will be defined as competition over the global value chain. Given the importance of these issues, it is necessary to address the situation of Iran's economy and the global value chain, which in this article will be examined in the pe-riod between 2007 and 2018. The present article is of descriptive-analytical research type and from the perspective of purpose; it is of applied research type. Accordingly, the main question is: What effect do Iran’s economic characteristics have on the country's position in the global value chain? The temporal hypothesis of the present question is: Focus on “domestic markets" and "re-source-oriented" are the two main features of Iran's economy that have led to a lack of ex-troverted outlook and put Iran's economy at the bottom of the global value chain between 1979 and 2018. The findings show that the implementation of more than three decades of import substitution policy, which has caused Iranian industries and producers to focus main-ly on the domestic market, and the extroverted view is not a priority for them; but in the cur-rent context of the domestic and global economy, adopting an export development policy with a focus on participation in the global value chain can be helpful in facing its require-ments and preconditions.