Iran's Rouhani urges for privatizing car industry
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has urged for privatizing the
country’s auto making industry.
“The auto making industry in Iran must be fully privatized,” ILNA
news agency quoted Rouhani as saying at a conference on the
automotive industry in Tehran.
He said that the policy for privatizing auto making industry is
aimed at creating competition which will lead to lower prices and
enhancing quality, ILNA news agency reported.
“The way for the development of auto making industry has been
opened in the country,” he added.
He criticized the country’s policy over the past decades on
imposing restrictions against importing foreign cars and urged all
officials involved in car making industry to make efforts to
satisfy people.
“We cannot close the doors and make people buy home-made cars,”
Rouhani said.
He further touched upon the environmental issues and urged for
observing environmental standards in the car industry.
President Rouhani called on international companies to cooperate
with Iran to develop the country’s auto making industry. He said
Iran welcomes foreign carmakers to come, do research and
produce.
The president also went on to thank people for showing high-turnout
in the recent elections for parliament and the Assembly of Experts
and expressed his administration’s readiness for cooperation with
the new parliament.
Iranians voted on Friday in elections for the 290-seat parliament
and the 88-seat Assembly of Experts, a powerful clerical body that
appoints the country’s supreme leader.
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