TEHRAN- Iranian car makers manufactured 579,776 vehicles in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-Septemebr 21), showing 15.6 percent rise compared to the same period of time in the preceding year, Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.

Iran is scheduled to manufacture 1.35 million of cars by the end of the current calendar year (March 20, 2017), Deputy Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade Mohsen Salehinia announced in early April.
As Salehinia underlined, the government seeks to improve the quality as well as the quantity of the domestically produced cars on the way to boost their exports.

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