New Cooperatives Created 68,000 Jobs in 12 Months

A total of 4,140 cooperatives were established in Iran during the last fiscal year (March 2017-18), which created 68,000 jobs, a deputy minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare said.
Hamid Kalantari added that 74 trillion rials ($1.76 billion) were paid in loans to cooperatives last year to support their activities, IRNA reported.