Iran’s export of petrochemical products is moving forward according to plans, the director of production control of Iran's National Petrochemical Company (NPC) said in a report.

The trend of petrochemical exports is satisfactory and with new petrochemical plants becoming operational, Iran will diversify its export destinations, NPC’s Ali-Mohammad Bosaqzadeh was quoted as saying in an Iran Daily News report.

He added that an increasing number of countries in addition to the permanent customers of Iran’s petrochemical products want to buy these items.

Bosaqzadeh said that he also hoped that by the end of the Sixth Five-Year Development Plan (2016-21), Iran will turn into a major petrochemical power in the region and world.

He noted that petrochemical products which are currently being imported can be produced in Iran in the near future as planned, added the report.