TEHRAN- Government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht announced that the government will create 830,000 job opportunities by the end of the next Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2019), IRIB news reported on Sunday.

“70 percent of the mentioned job opportunities will go to the educated workforce,” he said in a televised interview.

Few days ago, Nobakht, who is also the Head of Planning and Budget Organization, said that 750 trillion rials (over $18 billion) from the next year’s national budget is considered to be allocated for creating job opportunities in the country.

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