Iran to Create 41,000 Manufacturing Jobs until March: Minister

Iran’s caretaker minister of industries says tens of thousands of new jobs are planned to be created in the country’s manufacturing sector by March 2021.

Hossein Modarres Khiabani said on Saturday that a total of 200 new manufacturing projects worth 170 trillion rials (nearly $7.4 billion) will be fully launched by the end of the current Iranian calendar year.

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Modarres said those “propelling manufacturing projects” will create more than 41,000 new jobs across Iran.  

The caretaker minister added that that the government and the private sector are working on a total of 4,000 unfinished projects in the manufacturing sector with an eye to make..

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