Tehran, Iran, July 2
By Mehdi Sepahvand – Trend:
Iran has banned its free zones to import American-made cars.
In a directive addressed to the directors of free and economic zones, Secretary of the Supreme Council on Free Zones Akbar Torkan requested that American-made vehicles be banned from Iran’s free and special economic zones, IRNA news agency reported July 2.
In the letter, Torkan cites Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s guidelines about banning American-made products.
In a press conference last year, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli explained the reason behind banning “some brands” as the fact that “they represent the domination of certain powers.”
Fazli was explaining why the Islamic Republic had disallowed famous American fast food brands such as McDonalds and KFC to open branches in Iran.