TEHRAN–Head of Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO) Ali Yazdani said that some 136,000 direct jobs will be created in the country’s industrial parks by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2018).

According to Yazdani, 956 industrial parks are active across the country and over 50 percent of Iran’s industrial workforce are employed in industrial parks and small businesses, IRNA reported.

With these new jobs to be added, the number of people working in Iran’s industrial parks and small businesses will reach 936,000, the official announced.

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