TEHRAN – The Iranian Free Zones High Council has been taking new measures to improve the role of free trade and special economic zones in the country’s economy, the Iranian Free Zones News Agency (Freena) reported.

In this regard, Secretary of Free Zones High Council Hojatollah Abdolmaleki has been holding talks with senior officials from various government bodies to underline the importance of developing free zones for the country’s economic improvement.

In a meeting with Meisam Latifi, the Head of the Public Administration and Recruitment Organization on Monday, the two sides discussed structural and executive issues related to free and special economic zones.

Abdolmaleki also held a meeting with the Head of the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran (ISIRI) Mehdi Eslam-Panah in which he stressed the need to facilitate administrative affairs related to economic and business activities in free and special economic zones.

In the meeting, Eslam-Panah said free and special economic zones are effective in the economic progress of the country and maximum facilitation should be done in the administrative affairs related to economic and business sectors in these zones.

In another meeting with the Head of the Parliament’s Internal Affairs Committee Mohammad Saleh Jokar, the officials discussed ways of improving business and trade in the country’s free and special zones under the framework of the Seventh National Development Plan (2022-2026).

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Photo: Secretary of Free Zones High Council Hojatollah Abdolmaleki (R), and Head of Public Administration and Recruitment Organization Meisam Latifi