The Iranian Energy Ministry’s Spokesman for the electricity sector Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi has said the country is currently 90 percent self-sufficient in the electricity industry, IRNA reported.

Pointing to the allocation of 26 trillion rials (about $67.9 million) of credit to knowledge-based companies active in the electricity industry, Rajabi Mashhadi said: “Passing through the difficulties created by the sanctions and the current 90 percent self-sufficiency in the electricity industry is owed to the efforts of knowledge-based companies.” /T.T/