ahmad nematbakhsh, the secretary of the iranian automobile manufacturers association , said that the import of buses older than 5 years is on the agenda of tehran municipality, which is faced with the stoppage of bus production lines and the unemployment of the workforce in the country. it is far from fair to import buses while we are faced with the stoppage of production lines and the empty capacities of bus manufacturers and the unemployment of the workforce. mohsen hormozi, deputy of transport and traffic of tehran municipality. the ability of domestic bus manufacturers is not high and it takes a lot of time from ordering to delivery. we have contracts however, this has not been achieved with domestic manufacturers. for example, in china, jat factory produces 450 electric buses in one shift , but in the contract with one of the domestic bus manufacturing companies, it has informed us that it can deliver two buses to us in the first year. we also signed a contract for 500 d of 9-meter and 12-meter electric buses. the 12 -meter buses are not able to be produced, and the municipality