10/05/2010 17:27
Region’s biggest car plant opened in Iran
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has opened the Middle East's biggest car-manufacturing plant, located in the central city of Kashan.
The plant will produce over 150,000 homemade cars every year and provide employment to over 23,000 people, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. The plant will produce locally designed sedans and small cars, called the Tiba (Deer).
"This is the first Iranian vehicle with Iranian characteristics as it is designed and manufactured by Iranians. Tiba is the symbol of our confidence in ourselves ... The Iranian nation has shown that despite sanctions and pressures from enemies, we have resisted and have progressed,” AFP quotes Ahmadinejad as saying citing the state-run television website.