Rafsanjan produces 30 percent of Iran’s pistachios, he said.

Pistachio orchardists in Kerman Province will harvest 126,000 tons of pistachios this year, he added.

A total of 1,618 tons of pistachios worth about $14.68 million were exported from Iran during the first month of the current Iranian year (March 21-April 20), the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration announced.

Germany, Afghanistan, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, India, Iraq, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan were the main buyers of Iranian pistachio during the period.

According to Iran Pistachio Association, Iran and the US account for 85% of the global production of pistachio (dry in-shell basis).

There are some 400,000 hectares of pistachio farms across Iran.

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Also, two smugglers were arrested, he said, adding that unfortunately one police officer injured during the clash with the armed smugglers.

The Islamic Republic has been actively fighting drug trades originating from Afghanistan in the past four decades, despite its high economic and human costs. The country has spent more than hundreds of millions of dollars on sealing its borders and preventing the transit of narcotics destined for European, Arab and Central Asian countries.

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“Some 337,000 tons of products worth $183 million were exported through the Parvizkhan customs, and 36,000 tons of products worth $15 million through the Khosravi customs,” he said.

Some 800 to 1,200 trucks from Parvizkhan and some 500 trucks through Khosravi customs are sent to Iraq every day, he added.

Construction materials, fruits and vegetables were among Qasr-e Shirin’s main exports in the period.

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Rouhani went on to say that US claims against Iran are ‘baseless’, adding, “We know Iran’s power and region better than Americans … Devotion and power of the Iranian nation is way more than what US imagines.”

“We don’t have enmity towards anybody but we will not sit around and do nothing in face of plots,” he highlighted.

Rouhani also said that Iran will continue oil exports despite US pressure and if oil revenue decreases, the country will compensate it from other resources.

US unilaterally withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Deal, formally known as JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), back in May 2018, vowing to increase pressure against Iran by re-imposing tough sanctions. In their most recent measure, US officials announced that they will not issue any further waivers for countries who want to import Iranian oil, meaning that every state which buys Iranian oil is going to be punished by the US.

Iranian officials have repeatedly said that US efforts to drive Iran’s oil exports to zero is doomed to failure, also describing US moves as clear acts of ‘bullying’.

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The plant, which comes in line with the push to promote the downstream petrochemical industry, will provide over 150 direct job opportunities in the region.

Petrochemical is Iran’s most important industry after oil and gas. The National Petrochemical Company hopes to lift output capacity to 120 million tons per annum by 2022.

In the March 2018-19 fiscal, Iranian companies exported $14.1 billion worth of petrochemicals. Official data has it that petrochemicals account for 32% of Iran’s non-oil exports.

The petrochemical industry has played a key role in domestic economic growth as it creates value-added and reduces the sale of oil and gas on which the economy has been dependent for decades.

With abundant hydrocarbon reserves and new private sector investments, Iran is working hard to maintain its global status in the key sector and broaden its scope.

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An economic delegation from Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan region, is set to visit the western Iranian province of Kermanshah later today to talk over the expansion of bilateral ties.

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 Close to 4.783 million tons of commodities worth $2.376 billion were exported from the western province of Kermanshah in the past 10 months through Jan. 21, indicating a rise both in terms of volume and value, a senior official said.

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