Well , more than 5 years ago that our Kowsar/Saeghe project didn't bear and fruit for us , I ask for ToT with Pakistans/China on JF-17 , but my brethren were too proud/arrogant to accept it ...
We had very long war with Iraq which we couldn't keep most of our fleet flying due spare parts problem , we become just very obsessed with TOT to be able to keep our fighter flying in span of another war , but this war just showed our decision maker that nature of conflicts are changing and a war can start and end in less than 30 days , so even with just stocking spare parts we can enter a conflict and end it without losing the ability to fly our fighter jets ...