Knowledge-Based Exports Top $830m 

6 million in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (March 21-June 21), the deputy foreign minister for political affairs said.
“Currently, we are focusing on Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Brazil and Uruguay as export destinations and we are establishing houses of innovation and technology in one of these five countries,” Mehdi Safari was also quoted as saying by IRIB News.
“Several problems are preventing Iran from becoming self-sufficient in some fields and must be solved. For instance, we import $1.2 billion of chemical raw materials from China and India, which sometimes do not have the necessary quality and potency, but if we have the formulation of these materials, we could produce them domestically,” he added.
According to the official, the ministry has cooperated with knowledge-based and nanotech companies to facilitate this.