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Research Library
Every source the research used, graded and annotated — plus the registers that keep it honest: where credible sources disagree, what we investigated and rejected, what we excluded outright, and what we tried to retrieve and could not.
“Check it yourself” only means something if checking is easy. This is where it becomes easy.
The annotated library
Six tiers, from peer-reviewed (T1) to conditional-use (T6). 361 sources do not carry equal authority, and this site never implies they do.
The full archive
The full archive lives in the project repository at /research — around 150,000 words across 29 files, including every claim we investigated and rejected. It is deliberately not summarised away. This page is the window; the archive is the record.
00-methodology.md | Research process, source hierarchy, evaluation dimensions and weights, evidence-labelling convention |
01-iran-current-needs.md | Sector-by-sector evidence on Iran's condition |
02-reconstruction-needs.md | Needs across five time horizons |
03-domestic-capability.md | Where Iran already has capability — graduate output, professional registers, research output, brain drain |
04-iranian-diaspora.md | Diaspora populations by country, definition-controlled |
05-global-skills-and-technology.md | Global skills evidence, sector-by-sector AI assessment, and the AI counter-evidence |
06-expertise-candidates.md | Every candidate considered, including rejected ones, with reasons |
07-final-expertise-ranking.md | The 20 categories with all fields per category |
08-scoring-and-sensitivity.md | Full score matrix, weighting rationale, sensitivity analysis, the alternative ordering |
09-limitations-and-uncertainty.md | What this research cannot tell you; weak figures; retrieval failures |
10-bibliography.md | Annotated bibliography — organization, title, date, URL, what it supports, why credible |
11-excluded-evidence.md | Claims investigated and rejected, with reasons and source trail |
12-website-ready-summary.md | The curated public version this page is derived from |
Research from members
Member research is shown on its own shelf and is never mixed into Iran Builders' own research evidence.
Reviewed for appropriateness — not peer-reviewed. Iran Builders reviews contributions for relevance, sourcing and safety. We do not independently verify every statement, and publication does not constitute endorsement of the author's conclusions. The author is responsible for the accuracy of their work. Sources are listed so you can check it yourself.
No member research has been published yet.