Speaking to
NIPNA, Hossein Salimi said that the industry would allow for solving a part of the
problems caused by the US sanctions on Tehran.
Salami, who
is also the vice president of the Chamber’s capital market committee, said
after oil, the petrochemical industry generated the largest amount of revenues
for the country, adding that the sector’s consumers had already recognized Iran
as a supplier of petrochemicals thanks to their quality.
He said, “The
petrochemical industry is a sustainable industry in Iran given the fact that production
of natural gas, a petrochemical feedstock for petrochemical plants, is
sustainable and there exist vast deposits of the item in the country.”
The official
further said that the petrochemical industry played a key role in the country’s
economy.