Iran committee names state firms, agencies to be moved out of Tehran

The government has announced the list of 163 government firms and organizations that must be transferred from Tehran. Two important decisions ratified by the president's special representatives in the workgroup to transfer government employees from the city of Tehran have been emitted, announcing the priority and name of government firms and institutions that must leave Tehran and details on the manner of providing pensioners with special benefits if they are transferred from Tehran to other cities.

In line with the government's decentralization plans for Tehran and following decisions by the president's special representatives on the workgroup to transfer government employees from Tehran [Kargoruh-e enteqal-e karkonan-e dowlat az Tehran], taken in the group's meetings on the fifth and 16th Ordibehesht [15 April and 6 May 2010] following discussions by group members, and pursuant to Article 127 of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, agencies affiliated to ministries are to be transferred from Tehran on the basis of determined priorities. The place of transfer will be determined by the highest executive official of the agency and the provincial governor.

The workgroup to transfer government employees from Tehran has stressed that all the bodies cited above shall be transferred from Tehran with exceptions to be determined only on the recommendation of the most senior official of that body and with the workgroup's approval.

On the basis of another decision by the president's special representatives and in line with the goal of transferring government firms from Tehran, the board of directors of government companies based in Tehran are obligated to act within a month to move their central offices to relevant provincial areas.

Likewise the vice-presidency for management development and human capital [Mo'avenat-e towse'e-ye modiriat va sarmaye-ye ensani-ye ra'isjomhour] has been tasked with extending to voluntary retired forces the benefits cited in the letter of decision dated 12/27/88 [18 March 2010]. Thus retirees resident in Tehran who wish to move from Tehran to other cities can in keeping with the conditions of the above regulations, utilize its facilities.

The ministries of Economic Affairs and Finance, and of Housing and Urban Construction, have been tasked with announcing to the vice-presidency for management development and human capital the necessary resources for payment of facilities and housing provision.

On the basis of this ratified decision, the vice-presidency for management development and human capital must with the collaboration of executive bodies take necessary and legal measures to reduce the structure and number of independent organizations attached to ministries.

Ministers and heads of executive bodies shall also act to defer prerogatives to provincial managers with the cooperation of the vice-presidency for management development and human capital. Likewise provincial governors shall create necessary conditions for implementing the decisions of the workgroup to transfer government employees from Tehran.

All executive officials are obligated to implement the decisions of the transfer workgroup within a set timetable. Evidently negligent individuals will face legal and administrative measures. Likewise ministers and provincial governors who satisfactorily implement the president's orders and ratified decisions of the cabinet and transfer workgroup will with due regard for legal regulations, be decorated for merit.

Pursuant to the decision by the president's special representatives in the workgroup to transfer government employees from Tehran, three ministries have been tasked with reducing Tehran's university population and transferring this to other cities.

The Sciences, Research and Technology, Health and Medical Education, and Education ministries have been tasked with reducing the student capacity in government and non-government universities and act to provide facilities for its transfer and acceptance in the universities of large cities and other provinces.

In keeping with this decision and with the aim of transferring sections of universities from Tehran, the sciences, research and technology ministry has also been instructed to draft plans to reduce the university population in Tehran and announce this to the workgroup.

Separately the defence and armed forces logistics ministry is tasked, pursuant to the law on the sale and transfer of bases and other armed forces installations outside city boundaries (ratified in 1388 and within the framework of decisions by the supreme commander of the armed forces), to transfer bases and other military installations outside Tehran.

This decision requires bases to be transferred outside city limits in line with the law on the transfer of bases ratified in 1388 [2009-10] and in coordination with the armed forces general headquarters.

In line with the decision taken by the transfer workgroup all the above bodies must inform the workgroup of the timing of transfers. In addition bodies shall within 10 days present to the workgroup their feasible proposals for transferring government employees from Tehran within a specified timetable.

The Tehran governorate has also been tasked with drafting within a week the programme to reorganize and transfer unnecessary bodies in the city of Tehran, and announce this to the workgroup to transfer government employees from Tehran.

On the basis of this decision, credits for unnecessary construction and development projects in Tehran shall, as determined by the vice-presidency for planning and strategic supervision, be transferred to provinces receiving transferred projects and organizations.

Likewise the secretariat of the transfer workgroup is to be formed in the vice-presidency for management development and human capital.

In keeping with the set priority, respectively, government firms based in Tehran, educational institutions affiliated with executive agencies, public institutions and bodies (in keeping with the list approved by the cabinet) and organizations affiliated with ministries shall move out of Tehran.

The transfer workgroup has stressed that all organizations cited are ordered to leave Tehran and exceptions shall be determined only on the proposal of the senior official in the body and with the the workgroup's approval.

On the basis of the attached list given by the First Vice-President the companies cited in the decision are:

State firms based in Tehran:

A - State firms whose main centre of activity is outside Tehran but which have offices in Tehran:

1 - Cereals and Trading Company for regions 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 [as published], 2 - Iran Commercial Goods International Trading joint stock company, 3 - Sousangerd International joint stock company, 4 - Water Engineering Services joint stock company, 5 - Sardkhaneh Sam joint stock company [refrigeration], 6 - Allahabad Livestock Farming and Agriculture joint stock co., 7 - Sardsir-e Gorgan joint stock co., 8 - Special Air Services joint stock co., 9 - Farming Products Insurance Fund (Provinces), 10 - Sefidrud Agriculture and Livestock Farming joint stock co., 11 - Shahid Beheshti Kesht va San'at [farming and industry] joint stock company, 12 - Shahid Rajai Agro-Industrial Company, 13 - Jiroft Agro-Industrial Company, 14 - Haft Tapeh Agro-Industrial Company, 15 - Agriculture Sector Investment Development Support Fund (mother company), 16 - Fars Meat Complex joint stock co., 17 - Parvaresh-e Kerm-e Abrisham [silkworm breeding] joint stock co., 18 - Islamic Republic of Iran Army Model Farm joint stock co., 19 - Agricultural Products Insurance Fund, 20 - Moghan Agro-Industrial and Livestock, 21 - Farim Wood Industries Company, Choob-e Farim, 22 - Neka Choob co. [wood], 23 - Shafarud Forest joint stock co., 24 - Esfahan Steel Company, 25 - Kerman Coal Mines Company, 26 - East Alborz joint stock co., 27 - Central Alborz joint stock co., 28 - Sang Ahan Markazi Co. [iron ore], 29 - Tahieh va Towlid-e Mavadd-e Ma'dani-ye Iran [mineral products] joint stock co., 30 - Fuladiran trading services joint stock co., 31 - Tahieh va Towlid-e Mavadd-e avvalieh-ye Foolad Khorasan [primary material], 32 - Mo'assese-ye Tahqiqat va Karbord-e Mavadd-e Ma'dani-ye Iran [mineral research institute], 33 - Khuzestan Steel joint stock co., 34 - Ta'min-e Mavadd-e Ma'dani-ye Sanaye'e Fulad [raw material for steel industry], 35 - Mobarakeh Steel Company, 36 - Iran National Copper Industries Company, 37 - Iran Alumnium Co., 38 - Razi Petrochemical Company, 39 - Non-Industrial Operations and Petrochemicals Industries Services joint stock co., 40 - HEPCO [Heavy Equipment Production], 41 - Potleh Co., 42 - Arvandan Ship Building Company, 43 - Iran Self-Sufficiency Services and Research Centre, 44 - Iran Combine Manufacturing, 45 - Machine Sazi Arak Company [manufacturing] 46 - Machine Sazi Tabriz, 47 - Machine Sazi Lorestan co., 48 - Arak Agricultural Machineries and Implements TAKA, 49 - Wagon Pars Co., 50 - Iran Tractor Industrial Machinery Company, 51 - Nasab Gostar construction company, 52 - Press Iran [high capacity hydraulic and mechanical presses], 53 - Bandar-e Emam Petrochemical Co., also of Khorasan, Tabriz, Orumieh, Amir Kabir, Bu Ali Sina, Fajr, International Qanavaran, Pars, Jam, Marun, Zagros, Damavand, Mobin, Borzouyeh, 54 - Pasargad Services joint stock co., 55 - Iran Road Construction Engineering and Machinery Parts, 56 - Large Water Pumps Manufacturing, 57 - Tabriz Machine Manufacturing Engineering and Trading Edco, 58 - Jovain Electrical Machines Industries Company, 59 - Iran Heavy Diesel Co., 60 - Gostaresh-e Shirsazi [valves for oil industry], 61 - Esfarayen Industrial Complex co., 62 - Iran Air Industries Co., 63 - Barco Navard Bandar Abbas, 64 - Azarbayjan Steel Co., 65 - Kerman Steel Industries Co., 66 - Iran Alumina Co., 67 - Rokhavaran Fonun-e Petroshimi joint stock co., 68 - Louleh Gostar Esfarayen [drilling, tubing], 69 - Petrochemical Special Economic Zone Organization, 70 - Engelestan-Sangapour Petrochemical Trading joint stock co., 71 - Siman Darab [cement], 72 - Dubai and United Arab Emirates Free Zone Petrochemical Trading co., 73 - Shanghai International Petrochemical Trading co., 74 - Nimeh Hadi Emad [electronic, auto-electronic products], 75 - Songon Copper, 76 - Al-Mahdi Aluminium Co., 77 - Gostaresh Steel Industries Co. Contracting Company, 78 - Teta security equipment manufacturing joint stock co., 79, Novin Madan Co., 80 - Besparan [Petrochemical Company] Bandar Imam, 81 - Kimia [Petrochemical Company] Bandar Imam, 82 - Faravaresh Bandar Imam Co., 83 - Kharazmi [petrochemical] Bandar Imam Company, 84 - West Alborz Coal Co., 85 - Shiraz Petrochemical Co., 86 - Shahid Tondgouyan Petrochemicals, 87 - Khuzestan Petrochemical Co., 88 - Bistu [or Bistoon] Petrochemical Co., 89 - Shahr-e Babak Copper, 90 - Khuzestan Water and Electricity Organization co., 91 - Regional water company for the Tehran Province, Fars, Isfahan, Khorasan, Gharb, Kerman, Sistan-Baluchestan, Hormozegan, West and East Azarbayjan, Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan, Ardebil, Yazd, Zanjan, 92 - New Towns Development co. for Hashtgerd, Parand, Pardis, Andisheh, Mohajeran, Aalishahr, Alavi, Golbahar, Sahand, Baharestan, Sadra, Binalud, 93 - Rural Water and Sewerage company for provinces of West Azarbayjan, East Azarbayjan, Ardebil, Isfahan, Ilam, Bushehr, Tehran, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Khorasan, Khuzestan, Zanjan, Semnan, Sistan-Baluchestan, Fars, Qazvin, Qom, Kordestan, Kerman, Kermanshah, Kohgiluyeh-Boyrahmad, Golestan, Gilan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, Markazi, Hormozegan, Hamedan, Yazd, 94 - Regional electricity companies of Tehran, Fars, Isfahan, Khorasan, West Azarbayjan, Kerman, Sistan-Baluchestan, Hormozegan, Mazandaran, gilan, Bakhtar, Khuzestan, Zanjan, Semnan, Yazd, 95 - National Iranian Drilling Company, 96 - Arvandan Oil and Gas Production Co., 97 - Naftiran Intertrade (Nico), 98 - Southern Oil Fields Production co. [or National Iranian South Oil Co.], 99 - Iranian Central Oil Fields Co., 100 - Iranian Offshore Oil Company, 101 - Khazar Exploration and Production Co. [KEPCO], 102 - Oil industry general healthcare and medical services company [Persian: Khadamat-e omumi-ye behdasht-e san'ati va khadamat-e darmani-e san'at-e naft], 103 - Arak Refinery Col, 104 - Pars Oil and Gas, 105 - Gas company of Markazi province, Hamedan, Lorestan, Kermanshah, Kordestan, West and East Azarbayjan, Ardebil, Mazandaran, Golestan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Qom, Semnan, Yazd, Gilan, Khuzestan, Kerman, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh-Boyrahmad, Fars, Greater Tehran, Tehran province, Ilam, Isfahan, Khorasan, 106 - Gas refinery companies of Bid Boland, Shahid Hasheminezhad, Khangiran, Fajr, Sarkhun and Qeshm, Pars, Parsian, 107 - Kazerun, Gachsaran, Gharb, Southern Zagros, Aghajari, Marun and Masjed Soleyman oil and gas production companies, 108 - Oil products export bases co [Payaneha-ye saderati-ye mavadd-e nafti], 109 - Tur Birah Engineering Services and Industrial Equipment co., 110 - Pars Special Energy Economic Zone co., 111 - North [Shomal] Drilling Company, 112 - Oil Welfare and Cultural Services Co., 113 - Petropars Ltd., 114 - Communications companies of Markazi, Tehran, Gilan, Mazandaran, East and West Azarbayjan, Kermanshah, Khuzestan, Fars, Kerman, Khorasan-e Razavi, Isfahan, Hormozegan, Sistan-Baluchestan, Kordestan, Hamedan, Lorestan, Ilam, Zanjan, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh-Boyrahmad, Semnan, Yazd, Bushehr, Ardebil, Qom, Qazvin, Golestan provincves.

B: Other state-sector firms whose activities are in Tehran:

115 - Foreign Investments specialized mother firm, 116 - Privatization Organization, 117 - Educational Industries specialized mother company [or Education Equipment Industries], 118 - Specialized mother firm Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 119 - Specialized mother firm, Domestic Trade Services Expansion, 120 - Government Trading Corporation of Iran, 121 - Islamic Republic of Iran Post specialized mother company, 122 - Defence Industries Organization specialized mother company, 123 - Armed Forces Medical Services Organization specialized mother company, 124 - Iran Electronic Industries specialized mother company, 125 - Defence Industries Organization, 126 - Isiran, 127 - Shiraz Electronic Industries, 128 - Esfahan Optics Industries, 129 - Iran Electronic Parts Industries, 130 - Sairan, Iran Communications Industries, 131 - Aerospace Industries Organization, 132 - Iran Aviation Construction Industries, 133 - Iran Air Industries Co. [Sanaye'e havapeymai-e Iran], 134 - Qods Aviation Industries Co, 135 - PANHA, Iran Helicopter Support and Renewal Company, 136 - Islamic Republic of Iran Railway company, 137 - Transportation Infrastructure Construction and Extension Company, specialized mother company, 138 - State Airports Company, 139 - State Urban Construction and Development Company, 140 - New Towns Construction co., 141 - Iran Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Management Company TAVANIR, 142 - SATCAB electricity products construction and provision specialized mother company, 143 - Iran Water Resources Management specialized mother company, 144 - Mahab, state water and sewage engineering company, 145 - Mashanir, Power Engineering Services, 146 - National Iranian Oil Company, 147 - Iranian Fuel Conservation Company, 148 - National Iranian Gas Company, 149 - National Iranian Oil Products and Distribution Company, 150 - National Petrochemical Industries Company, 151 - Agriculture, Livestock and Resources Production specialized mother company, 152 - Agricultural Services specialized mother company, 153 - Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization, 154 - Iran Livestock Logistics Company, 155 - Industrial Development and Renovation Organization, 156 - Iran Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization, 157 - Iran Tobacco Company, 158 - Iran Power Network Management Company, 159 - Iran sporting venues expansion and upkeep company, 160 - Khaq Technical and Mechanical Laboratory, 161 - Iran Tourism and Travel Expansion [Towse'e-ye irangardi va jahangardi], 162 - Iran road machinery and equipment company, 163 - Iran International Exhibitions Company.