‘Provinces should focus on resources’

Iranian presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei says resource-rich provinces need to use their own capacities to develop local economies.

Addressing a crowd of supporters in the southeastern town of Khash the independent candidate said that southeast Iran plays an important part in Iranian culture and civilization.

Rezaei, who is secretary of the Expediency Council, underlined his plans for a federal economic model to assign bigger roles in the economy to each and every province.

In order to fix the economy, he said, the next president will have to trust the people– a policy that proved successful during the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the eight-year Iraqi imposed war.

Rezaei is facing seven rivals in the upcoming election including former Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Velayati, lawmaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, President of the Strategic Research Center of the Expediency Council Hassan Rohani, former First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Aref, and former Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Gharazi.

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This article originally appeared on: Press TV