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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
ex****ted to various countries, including Russia and Syria.
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