Iran's car industry profits from economic isolation during the global recession

(3 Apr 2009) SHOTLIST Tehran - March 19, 2009 1. Wide of a highway in capital Tehran 2. Various of traffic on street 3. Wide exterior of Pars Khodro, the oldest Iranian automating factory 4. Close-up of sign reading (Farsi) "Pars Khodro" 5. Mid of robot arms during operation in factory 6. Close-up of robots welding 7. Various of worker welding 8. Close-up of car doors ready to be installed on car 9. Line of unpainted cars in production line 10. Wide of robot picking up car's rear windshield 11. Close-up of worker's hand picking up the windshield with tool 12. Workers placing the rear windshield on a car in production line 13. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Behzad Razi Zadeh, Chief of Statistics Department of Pars Khodro: "We have experienced a 23 percent increase in our production compared to last year. We manufactured 202,605 cars last year and this figure rose to two hundred and thirty thousand this year, and we are planning to make it two hundred forty thousand. Our sales are also consistent with these figures." 14. Razi Zadeh monitoring a worker in factory 15. Wide of workers and car engines on production line 16. Close-up of screen showing active assembly lines 17. Pan car bodies hanging from crane in factory 18. Pan of workers assembling cars in factory 19. Close-up of worker twisting screws beneath a car 20. Wide of factory interior 21. Various of workers assembling cars AP Television Tehran, February 20, 2009 22. Wide of Pars Khodro managers taking seat in their meeting 23. Close-up of Pars Khodro Strategic Manager's hand writing on paper 24. Mid of managers in meeting 25. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mehdi Haji Mirarab, Advisor of Managing Director & Strategic Manager of Pars Khodro: "The global economic crisis affected and decreased the demand internationally. That is while we have guaranteed our sales for the next five months. We do not have any particular problem in terms of customer and market." 26. Close-up of pen in Mirarab's hand 27. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mehdi Haji Mirarab, Advisor of Managing Director & Strategic Manager of Pars Khodro: "The closed environment of Iran 's economy as a result of economic sanctions imposed on the country is one of the reasons (for automakers to make profit). Sanctions have brought both disadvantages and advantages for us." Tehran, February 19, 2009 28. Wide of workers checking up a ready car in factory 29. Wide of manufactured cars in factory 30. Mid of customers waiting to receive their cars 31. Customer receiving his license plate from Pars Khodro employee 32. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Reza Rezayee, car costumer "This economic crisis has affected the whole world but I, as an Iranian citizen, have not observed any negative impact on my life (resulting from global financial meltdown). I have the purchasing power to buy a car." 33. Wide of cars ready to be delivered to customers 34. Rezayee sitting in the car he has just purchased 35. Close-up of Rezayee's hand starting the car 36. Rezayee driving the car our of factory's car park 37. Wide of newly manufactured vehicles at test-drive 38. Various of manufactured cars ready for sale in factory Tehran, February 20 2009 39. Car driving into a car showroom selling Iran-made cars 40. Close-up of cars' names and their prices on board 41. Family on motorcycle looking at the car prices outside the showroom 42. Close-up of sign on car's hood reading (English) "Iran Khodro (major Iranian automaker)" 43. Man coming out of car showroom 44. Close-up of cars inside showroom 45. Exterior of car store 46. Wide of traffic on a highway in Tehran Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1b5ad23d3ee7acdc4e2a90c91445cb53

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