Nobakht: Gov’t to implement 46 projects in SW Iran to boost production
The Iranian government will implement 46 projects in the southwestern province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari by the end of the current calendar year (March 2021) to help boost production, said a vice president.
In an address to a meeting in the province on Tuesday, Mohammad-baqer Nobakht, who is also the head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization, added some $540 million will be invested in the implementation of the plans, which are expected to create over 12,000 jobs, IRNA reported.
Of these projects, he said, 17 pertain to the mining and industrial sectors, 20 to the agriculture industry, and nine to the services sector.
Nobakht also announced the start of construction of 1,000 housing units for the deprived people in the province’s rural areas.
He noted that last year (which ended on March 19), over $285 million were allocated to the implementation of 17 development plans in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, of which close to $262 million have been made available.
Nobakht stressed that last year, 2,000 housing units were built in the rural areas of each Iranian province, saying, however, the share of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari was 2,440 units, which is equal to the number of the people from the province who were martyred in the eightyear (1980-88) Iraqi-imposed war.
The vice president said the US government, as the world’s most evil administration, sought to prevent Iran from celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, he said, adding, “This comes as, today, it is the US which is in a catastrophic situation.”
In May 2018, President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed between Iran and the P5+1 in July 2015, and reimposed Washington’s unilateral sanctions on Tehran in a bid to cripple the Iranian economy, a plot that failed to produce favorable results for those who hatched it.
Nobakht said over the past three years, Iran has been under the toughest and cruelest sanctions, but “our economy still breathes”.