"In the next ten years, the export revenue from Iran's petrochemical industry would equal that of its oil industry."
President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami
"Petrochemical Special Economic Zone is emerging as a major hub of Iran's petrochemical industry."
Petroleum minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh
"Development programs at the Iranian petrochemical sector have a tendency to generate maximum added-value from crude oil and petroleum ministry has put the growth of the sector on its agenda."
Iran's deputy petroleum minister for planning, Akbar Torkan
"With the completion of its current expansion programs, the NPC's polymers output capacity will reach 5m tonne/year by 2005-06 representing 2.3% of the global share of the polymers market."
