Forming a special committee to follow up on leadership demands
The deputy minister of industry announced the formation of a special committee to follow up on the demands of the supreme leader in the mining sector, saying that the committee would meet with the minister of industry and focus on exploration.
Following a recent meeting of the government delegation with the Supreme Leader and his emphasis on the necessity of replacing mines instead of foreign exchange earnings, a special committee in the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade is following the demands of the mining sector, Jafar Sarqini said. That is what they are looking for and will consistently follow up on issues.
Deputy Minister of Industry, Mining and Commerce added: "Accordingly, meetings of this committee will be held with the presence of the Minister of Industry, Mining and Commerce and it is emphasized that special focus should be placed on mineral exploration, because the main issue is that Iran has not made extensive discoveries despite having large mineral reserves and this has resulted in it not being able to use the country's high foreign exchange earnings.
He emphasized that the main focus of the Ministry of Industry in the mining sector will be on exploration, while the Minister of Industry has placed a strong emphasis on preventing crude sales and completing the value chains of mineral products that will be pursued as a policy in the Mining Department. .
According to the report, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during a recent meeting of cabinet members: "What has been reported to me [is that] we are getting at least 15 percent of the country's mineral capacity - 15 percent! We have to replace mine with oil, which is really what we should be able to do.
I said it in the government years ago - maybe twenty years ago. We have to do what we can at any time, to close our own wells - not to be scared of the customer, not to be afraid of the market, or to have no money at the price of oil - to get here. Well we really have to think; we have to replace oil. You see how oil has come! A hint of the region's mischievous powers and elements makes oil suddenly drop from a hundred dollars to forty dollars! How many months have it been since the start of the $ 100 decline? Well, this is not reliable; one cannot consider this to be part of the fate of the country's economy and the livelihood of a country and to relate it to such a thing. Oil is ours, but it is in the hands of others, and most of it is in the hands of others. Most of the oil we use is exported by the oil importing government in Europe or elsewhere, which pays taxes and so on. We have our oil, we get money; he takes oil from us and from his own people. The use of those governments is more than ours of selling oil. What a brilliant deal. So somewhere we have to produce oil, of course, but we have no choice but to be really happy when we hear export growth and production growth; I always think we have to find an alternative. So if you want to find alternatives, one of the best alternatives is mines. Mines then have to be very strictly avoided. We have precious mines. In Kerman province or south of Khorasan, there are some extremely valuable stones. [We] cut this stone as well as once, send it to Italy to convert it and multiply its value by a few tens of times, and sometimes send it to us and export it to our own country. Be something. So, this is also an issue. And I think the issue of the private sector is also important to me. And the provinces, as I was told, say governors and people like that can enter the private sector in the mining case and elsewhere. "
