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| | President Khatami unveils details of Iran's budget bill for 1383 |
 | | Iran's budget bill for the next calendar year of 1383 (to start March 20, 2004) stands at 1,069,532 billion rials, registering a growth of 10.5 percent compared to that of 1382, President Mohammad Khatami said in Tehran on Tuesday, IRNA reported. |
 | | Khatami further stressed that investment in Iran's domestic enterprises will increase by 7.9 percent in 1383, adding that the government expects the investments to increase by 7.8 percent by the end of the current Iranian calendar year of 1382 (March 19, 2004). |
 | | Khatami further said the 1383 budget bill has allocated 231,411 billion rials for the investment by state institutions and banks, stressing that this will be 11.8 percent above the figure for 1382. |
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