Memo

Iran's automotive 'mega project' will have limited impact

To:

Al-Monitor Pro Members

From:

Dr. Bijan Khajehpour

Managing Partner, Eurasian Nexus Partners, Vienna, Austria

Date:

March 15, 2023

Bottom Line:

The Iranian government has set itself a plan to sell 500,000 passenger cars directly to end consumers in an effort to reduce market prices by limiting the influence of intermediaries. But the so-called "mega project" will have a limited impact on the deficiencies of the automotive market. As long as economic conditions remain unstable, manufacturers, traders and consumers will try to benefit from the unsaturated domestic marketplace and government intervention will only complicate matters.

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