Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei inspected production units in a medicine factory in Tehran Sunday where he also met with top Iranian laborers, saying National aspirations, including political independence, depended on economic self-sufficiency and independence.

The visit to Darupakhsh Factory took place days before Laborer Day in the Iranian calendar in a year named after national production.

Ayatollah Khamenei upon arrival in the factory premises visited a memorial put up in memory of martyr Iranian laborers where he recited the first sura of the holy Koran in homage to their souls.

Ayatollah Khamenei then visited the sterile unit of injective and drop medicine production and inspected different stages of production, QC procedures and packaging.

The unit has been designed and built by domestic experts in the span of a year. It has specialized in producing growth hormone, months ago in monopoly of several western countries.

Simultaneous with the visit, the factory put on market stalls the first packs of an injective medicine called Enoxaparin 6000, an anticoagulant.

Marziya Vahid Dastjerdi, Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Training said in the meeting that there have already been 100 medicine production factories there in the country 14 out of which involved in biological researches.

Ayatollah Khamenei then met with top Iranian laborers and made a speech.

Ayatollah Khamenei congratulated the labor week to the audience and the nation, adding that by the visit, he meant to express gratitude to the Iranian laborers. 

Ayatollah Khamenei said labor in its general sense proved to be a vital element of every society, adding that unlike Socialist or Capitalist systems, Islam has a sincere conduct towards laborers and considers labor as a value and source of values.

Ayatollah Khamenei urged for further institutionalization of Islamic attitude in labor agendas and called capital and labor as two wings of national production.

Ayatollah Khamenei renewed his warning that the enemy was focusing its conspiracies on the country's economic affairs, adding however that the Iranian nation will lift the hurdle from the path like in the past.

Ayatollah Khamenei said laborers, capital owners and state and private directors must join hands to overcome the enemy's economic conspiracy, adding that people too must join the campaign by consuming domestic commodities.

Ayatollah Khamenei said the three branches of government were duty-bound to take care of and support a healthy investment and labor situation in the country, adding that laborers must improve their skills and investors must enhance their management attitudes while both groups must enjoy security.

In the same regard, Ayatollah Khamenei said for the purpose of robust national production, a competitive situation must be established and quality must improve while prices must be reduced.

Ayatollah Khamenei also called for the formation of production-oriented policies, promotion of domestic goods, and renovation of machineries and management approaches as essential for supporting the national production.

Ayatollah Khamenei urged the three branches of government, the private sector, cultural figures and the IRIB to join hands for a collective effort in promotion of national production so that the enemy receives a much harsher blow in the field.