You guy's need some education up in here! Iran is actually not really "poor" I guess you could say. For example their GDP is like 400 Billion or more. Iraq is around 25-35 Billion. So, Iraq is defiantly poorer then Iran. But Iran is not poor compared to a lot of other countries. Such as every single country in Africa. The closet countries that are anywhere close to Iran are South Africa and Libya both with a GDP over 200 billion. Still Iran doubles that, so I wouldn't call them poor like I said.