yasera ebrahimi, the head of the iran stone association, says that our country has the capacity to producemillion tons of construction stone per year, but half of this capacity remains empty . according to mr. shakuri, using all the capacities of this industry can bring 5 billion dollars of foreign exchange for the country. coming out of the heart of the mountains, its design is eye-catching. decorative or building stones of which 20% of the reserves in the world are in iran. we are really the first rank in the world in terms of the variety of stones we have. in terms of reserves, in any case, from the word of mouth , for example , there are 16-17 billion tons of reserves in the world, and finally 3 billion tons are certain. located in our country, with these reserves, iran has the annual production capacity of 30 million tons of decorative stones, which provides both domestic needs and a share of global markets. right now we have a good capacity in the processing sector and we hope for the next years we can have a larger share in the market, in this way we can better use the processing ca