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Coronavirus, US Can Stop Iran Production: Rouhani

reporter 1222 — Thu, 21 May 2020 09:37:07 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani highlighted the country’s resolve to implement the current Iranian calendar year’s slogan of ‘Surge in Production”, stressing that neither the coronavirus nor the “US virus” can impede the Islamic Republic’s path of progress.

Addressing a ceremony held Thursday via videoconference to inaugurate a number of major water projects in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan in Iran, the president said sanctions and unprecedented pressures like coronavirus outbreak will not affect the country’s move forward to surge in production.

The US sanctions cannot force Iran to give up and the inauguration of such big projects more than two years after the imposition of the sanctions is proof of this, Rouhani added.

“Coronavirus and problems like that cannot stop our production. Of course, such problems have some impacts. Both the coronavirus and the US virus have impacts but none of them can stop us,” he stressed.

“We continue our production and make all-out efforts so that the objective set by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution for a surge in production in this year becomes operational and is materialized.”

In a New Year message on March 20, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed the need for a further surge in the national production with the participation of all organizations and sectors, saying, “Officials should act in a way that production will witness a surge, God willing, and that there will be a tangible change in the lives of the people.”

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Iran Steel Output Reaches to 1.5 Million Tons

reporter 1222 — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:21:21 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani officially opened Baft Steel mill with a production capacity of over 1.5 million tons a year, in a bid to further raise the Iran steel output and tap into its vast reserves of metals and minerals.

President Rouhani was in the Southeastern province of Kerman on Monday to green-light the start of production at Baft Steel, a mill located in a city with the same name.

The local news outlets said the mill has a total designed capacity of 800,000 tons a year for direct reduced iron (DRI), also called sponge iron, while it will produce a similar amount of crude steel, rising Iran steel output to a new amount.

It said construction for the mill started in 2017 and concurrent with a government initiative for fighting poverty and unemployment in Baft, a relatively poor region in Kerman, the province where some of Iran’s most precious metal reserves are located.

A total of 250 people will work at the mill and another 2,500 indirect jobs are expected on the supply and distribution chain.

More than €120 million have been spent on the project where construction has involved 50,000 tons of concrete pouring, 4,890 tons of steel structure and 7,641 tons of machinery installation, said the report, adding that the entire mill covers an area of 612 hectares to the Northwest of Baft.

The opening of the mill comes amid intensive efforts to tap into Iran’s massive deposits of metals as the government seeks to offset the impacts of the American sanctions on revenues derived from the sale of oil.

Iran is currently among the 10 leading producers of steel in the world. International surveys have shown that the growth of steel output in Iran for the past three years has outpaced a global rate of 3.5 percent. That has come despite a direct ban imposed by Washington on the country’s trade of metals since May this year.

Back in February, Iran started the construction for a giant steel mill in the country’s northwestern province of East Azerbaijan where a budget of 1.1 trillion rials ($26 million) had been allocated for the project by the private sector.

On January 26, the World Steel Association (WSA) announced that Iran ranked 10th among crude steel producers in the world in 2018 with 25 million tons of production, with a 17.72% rise compared with 2017.

Iran has pushed aside Italy, Taiwan, and Ukraine to become the 10th biggest producer of crude steel in the world for the year 2018.

The WSA has put the global crude steel production for the year 2018 at 1,808.6 million tons (Mt), which shows a 4.6% increase compared to 2017.

According to the report, Iran’s crude steel industry has remained in good shape despite the US sanctions.

Iran produced 25.0 Mt in 2018, showing a 17.72% increase compared to 2017 (21.2 Mt).

Iran’s share of global crude steel production has been estimated at 1.38% for the year 2018.

Based on the report, the second to ninth places went to India, Japan, the US, South Korea, Russia, Germany, Turkey and Brazil with 106.46 million tons, 104.33 million tons, 86.7 million tons, 72.46 million tons, 71.68 million tons, 42.44 million tons, 37.31 million tons and 34.73 million tons respectively.

According to the Islamic Republic’s Vision Plan, the country’s total steel production capacity is to hit 55 million tons a year by 2025, with exports figure expected to reach 10-15 million tons.

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Iran’s Self-Sufficient in Heavy Tire Industry

reporter 1222 — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:59:32 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade said the country is going to be self-sufficient in heavy tire production.

Speaking in Ardabil, Reza Rahmani said on Saturday that Iran will become fully self-sufficient in manufacturing heavy tires as soon as four major tire factories come into operation in different provinces. Iran News covers the story told by Tasnim.

He added that development of a tire factory in the province of Ardabil would push Iran 30% closer to the target of self-sufficiency in the heavy tire industry.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has repeatedly called for efforts to stimulate domestic production and combat unemployment,

During a visit to a scientific exhibition on Tuesday, the Leader assured the Iranian knowledge-based companies and the enterprises working on advanced technologies that he would do the best to remove obstacles in the way of the youths’ scientific progress.

Earlier Mohammad Reza Bajestani, an official with the Ministry of Industries, has said 400,000 tons of tires are sold in the country every year. Local companies on average used to produce 250,000 tons.

According to the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, importers annually brought in close to 120,000 tons of tires. The balance is contraband smuggled through the porous borders.

Several firms, including the well-known Kavir Tire and Yazd Tire companies, used to produce tires for both heavy and light vehicles in large volumes. In addition to the two, there are 8 other major tire companies. Some 15,000 people work for the tire manufacturing industry.

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Iran produces over 15mn tons of livestock products annually

reporter 1222 — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 10:13:17 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of Iran Veterinary Organization Alireza Rafieipoor said that Iran produces over 15mn tons of livestock products annually.

He made the remarks on the occasion of National Veterinary Medicine Week and added that his organization has achieved an annual production of over 15 million tons of red and poultry meats, eggs, honey and milk.

Health-oriented objectives are not materialized without taking hygienic and preventive measures into consideration, Rafieipoor added.

Iran Veterinary Organization is duty bound to control and prevent diseases which are common between human and animals in line with realizing health-oriented goals in the country, he stated.

In the policies notified by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution with regards to the “resistance economy”, two concepts of ‘productivity’ and ‘food security’ were assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture, he said, adding, “with the necessary measures taken after the Islamic Revolution, today, we have attained self-sufficiency in producing raw animal products” along with Iran produces over 15mn tons of livestock per year.

Despite sanctions imposed on the country, Iran Veterinary Organization made every effort to control diseases and provide necessary raw materials in relevant field such as vaccines, medicines, supplements, micro nutrient, etc. in the year named after ‘boosting domestic production, he added.

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