NCRI – Some 60 percent of industrial and production units in Gachsaran, southwestern Iran, have been closed and a number of workers in these units are unemployed, the clerical regime’s news agencies reported this week.
On Tuesday, Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated to the regime’s Revolutionary Guards, quoted the head of the Department of Industry, Mining and Trade in Gachsaran as saying that more than half of all industrial manufacturing units in the city are either fully or partially closed.
Reza Sharifi told Tasnim: “Recession, lack of working capital and financial resources, and banks’ deferred debts are the main reasons for the closure of 60 percent of industrial and production units in the city. And a number of workers in these units are forced to stay at home.”
The news agency wrote that due to its oil and gas resources and its status as an industrial city, Gachsaran is very much involved in the country’s production and income.
The city currently produces 30 percent of the country’s oil and makes a huge contribution to the country’s revenue. The city is known as the world’s fifth largest repository and producer of oil, and the second largest producer of gas in the country.