Putting the brakes on Iran's exports - 21 Oct 08
When you think of car makers - Ford, Toyota, Nissan or BMW will probably spring to mind. But the name Khodro is not so well known, even though its the biggest car maker in the Middle East. And because they are made in Iran, international sanctions are putting the brakes on exports as Al Jazeera's Alireza Ronaghi reports.
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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