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South Aluminum Company, Sirjan Jahan Steel Complex and Iran Central Iron Ore Company.
The output of Iran’s aluminium producers was recorded at aggregate 275,716 tonnes in the 2019/2020 Persian calendar year (ended March 20), marking an 8% y/y decrease, according to the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization.
Flagship producer Iran Aluminum Company (IRALCO) accounted for 177,348 tonnes, registering growth of 4% y/y.
Second biggest producer was Hormozal Aluminum Company with 46,694 tonnes, a figure that represented a 40% y/y drop. Next were Almahdi Aluminum Company with 42,059 tonnes (20% y.y) and Iran Alumina Company with 9,615 tonnes (no annual comparison was provided).
Iran produced 18.5mn tonnes of steel ingot in the first 11 months of the 2019/2020 Persian year (year ends on March 19), marking growth of 4% y/y, Mehr news agency reported on March 14.
Bonab Steel Production Company reportedly registered 865% growth in producing billet ingot in the period while Esfahan’s Mobarakeh Steel Company and Hormozgan and Saba steel companies produced 8,389,280 tonnes of steel, approximately the same amount as was recorded in the first 11 months of the 2018/2019 Persian year.
Iran’s total steel production volume, including rebar, beam, hot and wide steel sheets, galvanized sheet and pipe hit 12,308,475 tonnes, up 7% y/y.
Iran is working to a strategy running to 2025 under which its steel production capacity would rise to 55mn tonnes. It stood at 35mn tonnes by March 20, 2019.
9.1.11 ​Defence sector news
Iran says UAE ship seized for violating waters after killing of two Iranian fishermen
July’s Natanz
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on August 20 said Iranian border guards seized a United Arab Emirates (UAE) ship for violating its territorial waters earlier this week and that UAE coastguards killed two Iranian fishermen on the same day.
The announcement came amid increasingly fraught relations between the two countries following last week's announcement that the UAE had agreed to restore full diplomatic relations and normalise ties with Tehran's foe, Israel. "On Monday, an Emirati ship was seized by Iran's border guards and its crew were detained due to illegal traffic in our country's waters," Iranian state TV quoted the ministry as saying.
"On the same day, UAE guards shot dead two Iranian fishermen and seized a boat," the ministry said, adding that it summoned the UAE charge d'affaires in Tehran to protest.
UAE state news agency WAM reported on August 17 that UAE coastguards had tried to stop fishing boats that had violated the country’s territorial waters. It did not report any casualties.
Separately, Colombian President Ivan Duque said on August 20 that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s administration, which has been building a strategic relationship with Iran, a country that like Venezuela is subjet to crushing US sanctions, is looking to buy Iranian missiles and is handing over weapons made in Russia and Belarus to Colombian armed groups.
A blaze at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility last month was caused by
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