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By : Farahmand Alipour*

Iranians are happy with their particular auto business, which makes up about the lion’s share of production in the country. But saddled with reputation problems, sanctions, and war in certain of their target areas, Iranian carmakers have experienced for innovative.
Two different types of automobile, the Pride and the Samand, are a familiar picture on Iranian streets. Long the country’s two most popular makes, obtained in addition be a familiar sight overseas as folks across the world embraced them with regards to their price—and for Iranian automobile producers’ dedication to creating at the least a number of the vehicles within their target export areas.

But recently the Iranian car business happens to be struggling with a mixture of elements. Both Pride in addition to Samand have suffered reputation issues at home, such as the Pride, which is called an excellent vehicle for town driving that converts lethal when you strike the highways. In June a year ago, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi also warned their followers to trade-in their Prides for another model, plainly concerned about its security dilemmas in a country with a few associated with highest traffic fatality prices on the planet. More, Iranian organizations have actually tended to export to and manufacture automobiles in nations today enduring political and economic crises, including in Syria. And, definitely, you can find the Western sanctions against Iran, which have particularly targeted the car business because of its prominent place in the Iranian economy.

Iran produced 850, 000 automobiles in 2012, rendering it the sixteenth-largest automobile manufacturer globally. A is the reason ten percent of Iranian GDP and it is the greatest sector regarding the economy after petroleum. Previously, its vehicles were shipped to a large number of markets—Russia, Venezuela, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq and Syria one of them. In line with the Overseas business of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, before 2011 Iran had been among center East’s biggest carmakers, producing more than 1.6 million cars annually.

But worldwide sanctions resistant to the Islamic Republic, which stop domestic manufacturers from importing required parts, have actually encouraged foreign carmakers that had certified Iranian businesses like SAIPA and Iran Khodro to produce their particular vehicles for many years to discontinue their agreements. Coupled with a parts shortage additionally caused by the sanctions, this crisis forced Iran down seriously to 20th devote the car-manufacturing tables in 2013.

Khodro and SAIPA, Iran’s two biggest vehicle makers have actually production internet sites internationally. Khodro, which makes the Samand, and makes up about 50 per cent associated with domestic market, features 12 production web sites, including foreign internet sites in Belarus, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Senegal, Egypt and Syria.

It's this existence in Syria—once a key foreign market for Iranian cars—that features weakened the Iranian vehicle industry. Khodro and SAIPA both have plants inside country—Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad even attended their spaces. Prior to the conflict hit, SAIPA decided to produce 5, 000 automobiles in Syria every year, and before so it had shipped 35, 000 automobiles towards the nation. Khodro had development programs targeted at securing 40 percent of this Syrian car marketplace together with invested 60 million United States dollars to produce 10, 000 Samands to Syria every year. It had even renamed the vehicle for Syrian marketplace, phoning it the “Shaam, ” an Arabic word that identifies better Syria. But Khodro’s plans in Syria failed whilst the war began four years later, having offered just 11, 000 devices, at a rather reasonable profit.

With Western sanctions shutting a few of the primary target markets for Iranian cars together with Syrian crisis shutting another, manufacturers in the nation have started to check to areas in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan to sell their products. Their war-torn image will make these nations appear to be unlikely targets for expansive vehicle production and advertising and marketing programs, but Iraqis in particular have indicated a desire to purchase new cars.