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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran plans to spend 300mn Euros to build 200 large cargo ships
2019-10-18
And how, pray tell, do they plan to get that large sum of money?
[PRESSTV] Iran’s minister of industries and trade says the country will spend nearly 300 million euros to build 200 large vessels as an ailing shipbuilding sector keeps growing only because foreign companies avoid offering services to the country due to the American sanctions.

"We have defined a target for construction of 200 cargo vessels as part of the development plan for maritime industries," said Reza Rahmani on Thursday, adding, "Some €300 million will be invested in this field."
1.5 million per ship implies small ships
How small?
Speaking to news hounds in the southwestern port city of Bushehr, Rahmani said shipyards in the region and other coasts south and north of the country had been experiencing a boom in activity since last year when the US imposed its sanctions on Iran.

"Our ships and vessels no longer sail abroad for repair and restoration," said the minister, adding that shipyards in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
had carried out more than 100 maintenance operations on vessels in various sizes since March 2019.
Posted by:Fred

#1  1.5 million per ship implies small ships
How small?

200 yachts for the ruling class. They will be smuggling ayatollahs and liquor via Dubai.
Posted by: Phomose Pheresh4103   2019-10-18 01:17  

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