EghtesadOnline: While e-governance initiatives were to help downsize the government, the secretary of Iran’s IT Executive Council says that due to the bloated bureaucracy , these initiatives have not delivered the promised results and even made things worse.

EghtesadOnline: A bloated bureaucracy , red tape and lack of well-defined and unambiguous legal frameworks regarding copyright and user privacy are the main hurdles Iranian startups and e-commerce firms say they are grappling with.