Consuming domestic products is a point which I would like to address to all our people. Dependence on foreign products is one of our more serious social problems which is rooted in the era of taghut. There was a time when we did not have many domestic products or our domestic products were not good enough for consumption. This is not the case today.
Our domestic products are high-quality today. This is while there are some people who love to say that their clothes and foodstuff have foreign brand names on them. This is a kind of disease, and it is necessary to cure it. This shows that they do not care about the fact they are living in this country and that they are benefiting from the divine blessings which have been bestowed upon this country. So they channel the money that has been earned inside the country into the pockets of foreign laborers, money that should go into the pockets of our domestic laborers.
This means that we are ignoring the needs of our domestic laborers who are making efforts and producing goods for us. This means that we prefer foreign laborers to our domestic laborers. This is a very bad habit.
I believe one way in which our people can engage in economic jihad is to consume domestic products. Of course, the other side of the issue is that the quality of our domestic products should be acceptable. The durability and quality of our domestic products should be acceptable to our consumers. Both of these things are necessary.
Imam Khamenei, Apr 27, 2011
A country’s workforce is its biggest capital. You make up Iran’s workforce: the laborers, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, and all those working in different sectors. The country’s workforce has such great value; and the working class is part of this great value and capital
Imam Khamenei, April 30, 2018