Article 003 [State Goals]

In order to attain the objectives specified in Article 2, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has the duty of directing all its resources to the following goals: 1) the creation of a favorable environment for the growth of moral virtues based on faith and piety and the struggle against all forms of vice and corruption; 2) raising the level of public awareness in all areas, through the proper use of the press, mass media, and other means; 3) free education and physical training for everyone at all levels, and the facilitation and expansion of higher education; 4) strengthening the spirit of inquiry, investigation, and innovation in all areas of science, technology, and culture, as well as Islamic studies, by establishing research centers and encouraging researchers; 5) the complete elimination of imperialism and the prevention of foreign influence; 6) the elimination of all forms of despotism and autocracy and all attempts to monopolize power; 7) ensuring political and social freedoms within the framework of the law; 8) the participation of the entire people in determining their political, economic, social, and cultural destiny; 9) the abolition of all forms of undesirable discrimination and the provision of equitable opportunities for all, in both the material and the intellectual spheres; 10) the creation of a correct administrative system and elimination of superfluous government organizations; 11) all round strengthening of the foundations of national defence to the utmost degree by means of universal military training for the sake of safeguarding the independence, territorial integrity, and the Islamic order of the country; 12) the planning of a correct and just economic system, in accordance with Islamic criteria, in order to create welfare, eliminate poverty, and abolish all forms of deprivation with respect to food, housing, work, health care, and the provision of social insurance for all; 13) the attainment of self-sufficiency in scientific, technological, industrial, agricultural, and military domains, and other similar spheres; 14) securing the multifarious rights of all citizens, both women and men, and providing legal protection for all, as well as the equality of all before the law; 15) the expansion and strengthening of Islamic brotherhood and public cooperation among all the people; 16) framing the foreign policy of the country on the basis of Islamic criteria, fraternal commitment to all Muslims, and unsparing support to the freedom fighters of the world.