Noting that some 5,000 new industrial and manufacturing enterprises have opened across the country in the current fiscal, the official said 6,000 units are in the final stages of completion, which will create about 45,000 new jobs once they come on stream, according to Financial Tribune.
Salehinia put the total number of Iran’s manufacturing enterprises at about 85,000, of which 17,000 are in the doldrums, IRNA reported.