Islamic Iran: Khodro to increase production Options

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Iran's auto manufacturing giant, Iran Khodro, says it plans to increase
annual auto production capacity to 1,080,000 by 2011. Iran Khodro's
managing director, Manouchehr Manteqi, said Iran Khodro industrial
group managed to break its own production record for the fifteenth
time by manufacturing 525,172 vehicles in 2007.

Iran Khodro, the largest automobile producer in the Middle East, has
manufactured 2,800,000 vehicles in the past six years. Iran Khodro
produces Iran's first national private vehicle, the Samand, which is
exported to various countries, including Russia and Syria.

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