Tehran(IP): The Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance said that Iran's economic growth has reached the stage of sustainable economic growth in the last 4 years.

Iran Press/Iran news: According to Iran Press, Ehsan Khandozi, at the beginning of his weekly press conference said: "Last month, the World Bank confirmed in a report published that Iran's economic growth in the last 4 years has reached the stage of sustainable economic growth."

He then added: "In the same report of the World Bank, it was confirmed that the poverty rate of Iran has decreased by 7.4% in the last 2 years, from 29.3% to 21.9%."

Approximately 6.5 million people have moved out of the poverty threshold, he said. "This means that approximately 6.5 million people have moved out of the poverty line.

The economic spokesman of the government added: "The change in the direction of economic growth from the unstable conditions of the 1390s (in the Iranian calendar) to stable and stable conditions has been emphasized and confirmed in the World Bank report."

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