{"id":18583,"date":"2026-09-14T04:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=18583"},"modified":"2026-09-14T04:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:07:42","slug":"downstream-petrochemicals-can-take-a-larger-share-of-irans-economy-lawmaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/18583\/","title":{"rendered":"Downstream Petrochemicals Can Take a Larger Share of Iran\u2019s Economy, Lawmaker Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Downstream petrochemical industries can play a much larger role in Iran\u2019s economy if they get proper planning and investment, Seyed Esmaeil Hosseini the member of parliament\u2019s energy commission said.<\/p>\n<p>Seyed Esmaeil Hosseini told Roydad Naft, citing NIPNA, that petrochemical development has continued despite war and sanctions and is visible across several segments. The industry should be supported as a driver of growth, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Balanced development can create more value added. Gains already made under sanctions and wartime conditions show what the sector can deliver, Hosseini said. Expanding both upstream petrochemicals and downstream units would create jobs, and skilled staff make the planned programs achievable.<\/p>\n<p>Complementary petrochemical industries have taken a solid share of the economy in recent years, he said, so strengthening that segment requires planning and investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downstream petrochemical industries could play a much larger role in Iran\u2019s economy with proper planning and investment, said Seyed Esmaeil Hosseini, a member of Parliament\u2019s Energy Commission.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,22,36,19,21,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-18583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-petrochemical","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18585,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions\/18585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18583"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=18583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}