The project, National MAP 24 locomotive, includes indigenizing manufacture of freight locomotives by MAPNA Group.

IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK

The expansion phase has the capacity of producing 25 freight locomotives per year and is constructed in a 4.500-square meter land.

The project will provide jobs for 100 people, the report said.

MAPNA Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company is the main company in MAPNA rail section. This company was established in 2007.

Vice President also toured the exhibitions on MAPNA-made parts of the locomotive parts. The first sample of electric MAPNA-made vehicle is put on display in the exhibition.

Meanwhile during the ceremony, MAPNA Group and Plan and Budget Organization signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation.

Addressing the ceremony, Jahangiri said that Iran has always protected the security of the region and Persian Gulf and forming a coalition is not necessary.

Jahangiri noted that one of the main factors of Iranian people’s success is that they have always protected their dignity, adding that they are logical people and have relied on dialogue and logic in solving serious crises rather than resorting to force.

The strategies that Iran is proposing for administrating of the world is also based on dialogue and logic, Iranian Vice President said, adding that the most complex nodes and crises in the world can be resolved through dialogue, and It is a false idea to imagine that the one who has more power, has stronger logic.

He mentioned that negotiation and agreement of six powerful countries with Iran means that Iran has been able to prove its logic and argument at the negotiation table.

Expressing that Iran has always been  protecting the Persian Gulf and the region’s security, he highlighted that forming a coalition is not necessary to protect the security of the region and those who are seeking a coalition have not achieved anything except to foster insecurity.

Iranian VP said that the security of the region can be provided by Iran with the help of the regional countries, adding that the only way to ensure the security of the region is to engage in negotiation and logical dialogue with Iran without any pressure.